California’s Public Records Act (PRA) law requires public entities to make their public records open for inspection and copying. Environmental practitioners often use PRA requests as a tool to obtain information regarding a contaminated or a potentially contaminated site. In a recent case, Ardon v. City of Los Angeles, the California Court of Appeals found that a public entity can waive statutory privileges that it otherwise would have if it produces privileged documents in response to a PRA, even if inadvertently.

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