http://www.bapolitix.org/2009/04/will-new-bill-end-up-weakening-state.html

In my piece you’ll see comments from Marc Le Forestier, Attorney General Jerry Brown’s legislative affairs director.
Le Forestier said the state does have some gnarly examples of California Public Record Act requester abuse. He also told me that, ultimately, the reason for the legislation was about agency cost and resource containment in these troubled and uncertain economic times.
At its core, the CPRA is critical to illuminating the operations of California government because it forbids a given governmental agency from taking into consideration a requester’s purpose or reason for seeking certain public records.
If AB 520 was to be enacted, however, a superior court judge would be put in that exact position, thus creating a terribly steep ‘slippery slope’ along the way.
As a veteran California journalist I share the view that this is a heavy-handed effort that if passed would do more harm than good and would establish a “chilling effect” on the rights of all folks to better monitor and understand their state government.
Thanks, Josh, for bringing your Tribune and BANG readers up to speed on this legislation.
The Assembly’s Judiciary Committee has scheduled next Wednesday (4/28) to hear AB520. Whether or not the legislation is actually taken up at that time remains an open question. Let’s hope not.

I dare you, I double dog, over the barrel dare you to send a PRA to the town of Discovery Bay and CoCo County, requesting all PRA’s from a man named Bill Richardson… but you have to ask for ALL of them.