Was this search legal?

[CdwJava]

The Mayor is going to have the charges dropped because I have since corrected the problem.

Interesting that in your state the MAYOR is involved in the justice system. Out here if the mayor tried to have a citation dropped it would likely result in some sort of investigation against the mayor and anyone who tried to drop it.

Different states, different rules.

- Carl

 

[CdwJava]

In MD they can only hide the training and testing records for government employees if it is somehow against the "public interest" to divulge them. I would think WV is about the same.

I suppose it depends on whether they are classified as personnel records or not, and what protections are granted to those records under state law.

Off the top of my head I cannot say whether they would be "personnel records" in CA, but I suspect they are. In which case they could be withheld on a request without cause. If training were relevent to the case being tried (i.e. radar training, or specialized drug training) then the records would likely be released.

EDIT: After looking it up, I found that law enforcement training records while technically "personnel records" would still "ordinarily" not be exempt from disclosure. To quote the CA Attorney General:

"Information such as an individual's qualifications, training, or employment background, which are generally public in nature, ordinarily are not exempt."

- Carl

 

[Gevalia]

Interesting that in your state the MAYOR is involved in the justice system. Out here if the mayor tried to have a citation dropped it would likely result in some sort of investigation against the mayor and anyone who tried to drop it.

Different states, different rules.

- Carl

Yeah, that's pretty much how it works in NC, too.