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California Legislature shields records

California and Oklahoma are among at least six states that do not require legislators to follow open meeting and open record laws.

By The Associated Press Comment on this article 0
Published: December 24, 2010

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Calif., others also shield records

— A letter written by a lobbyist to a lawmaker; an e-mail pitch by a campaign donor; memos sent by party leaders directing legislators how to vote on a bill.

Those are just a few examples of documents that would shed light on how the California Legislature conducts the public's business. But California lawmakers, like their counterparts in Congress and several other states, keep those and other types of correspondence secret under a special law covering legislative records.

California is one of at least six states in which legislatures require less transparency for



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