California Civil Code

§ 1798.34

CIV § 1798.34Div. 3 · Title 1.8 · Part 4 · Ch. 1 · Art. 8

Statute text

(a)Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, each agency shall permit any individual upon request and proper identification to inspect all the personal information in any record containing personal information and maintained by reference to an identifying particular assigned to the individual within 30 days of the agency’s receipt of the request for active records, and within 60 days of the agency’s receipt of the request for records that are geographically dispersed or which are inactive and in central storage. Failure to respond within these time limits shall be deemed denial. In addition, the individual shall be permitted to inspect any personal information about himself or herself where it is maintained by reference to an identifying particular other than that of the individual, if the agency knows or should know that the information exists. The individual also shall be permitted to inspect the accounting made pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 1798.25).

(b)The agency shall permit the individual, and, upon the individual’s request, another person of the individual’s own choosing to inspect all the personal information in the record and have an exact copy made of all or any portion thereof within 15 days of the inspection. It may require the individual to furnish a written statement authorizing disclosure of the individual’s record to another person of the individual’s choosing.

(c)The agency shall present the information in the record in a form reasonably comprehensible to the general public.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 595, Sec. 15.