UC violates law in delaying pepper-spray report release, experts say
The University of California is violating state law by refusing to release portions of an investigative report on a police officer’s pepper-spraying of Occupy protesters, public-records experts said Wednesday. An Alameda County judge ruled this week that the university could release all but a few sections of the report to the public. But UC lawyers refused to release the document to this newspaper, which had requested it under the California Public Records Act. The state law requires public agencies such as the UC to provide most documents upon request. The university provided two disparate explanations for the denial, each of which open-government advocates criticized.
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by Matt Krupnick, The Contra Costa Times.