Decision 18-04-032 April 26, 2018 BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Order Instituting Rulemaking to Improve Access to Public Records Pursuant to the Rulemaking 14-11-001 California Public Records Act. (Filed November 6, 2014) ORDER DENYING REHEARING OF (D.) 17-09-023 INTRODUCTION the application for rehearing of Decision (D.) Today’s decision disposes of 17-09-023 the City of (or “Decision”), filed by San Bruno (“San Bruno”). D.17-09-023 is a decision issued in Rulemaking (R.) 1411001 that adopted a new General Order which was designed to update the (“GO”) 66-D, Commission’s processes for the submission, review, and potential disclosure of information submitted to, and created by, the Commission. As explained in the decision, the objective of GO 66-D was to: [E]stablish processes for the Commission to review information for confidential treatment of submitters’ requests information submitted to the Commission, the Commission’s responses to CPRA requests, and the Commission’s determination of whether to release information to the public. (D.17-09-023, at p. 7.) supra, San Bruno filed a timely application for rehearing of D.17-09-023, challenging the validity of processes set forth in various sections of GO 66-D. In its rehearing application, San Bruno contends that these processes violate their statutory and constitutional rights to access public records. Specifically, they allege that the lack of a fixed time frame for the completion of the resolution process (Section 6.1 of GO 66-D) and rehearing process (Section 6.2 of GO 66-D) violates the following authorities
Decision 18-04-032 April 26, 2018 BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Order Instituting Rulemaking to Improve Access to Public Records Pursuant to the California Public Records Act. Rulemaking 14-11-001 (Filed November 6, 2014) ORDER DENYING REHEARING OF (D.) 17-09-023 INTRODUCTION Today’s decision disposes of the application for rehearing of Decision (D.) 17-09-023 (or “Decision”), filed by the City of San Bruno (“San Bruno”). D.17-09-023 is a decision issued in Rulemaking (R.) 1411001 that adopted a new General Order (“GO”) 66-D, which was designed to update the Commission’s processes for the submission, review, and potential disclosure of information submitted to, and created by, the Commission. As explained in the decision, the objective of GO 66-D was to: [E]stablish processes for the Commission to review information submitters’ requests for confidential treatment of information submitted to the Commission, the Commission’s responses to CPRA requests, and the Commission’s determination of whether to release information to the public. (D.17-09-023, supra, at p. 7.) San Bruno filed a timely application for rehearing of D.17-09-023, challenging the validity of processes set forth in various sections of GO 66-D. In its rehearing application, San Bruno contends that these processes violate their statutory and constitutional rights to access public records. Specifically, they allege that the lack of a fixed time frame for the completion of the resolution process (Section 6.1 of GO 66-D) and rehearing process (Section 6.2 of GO 66-D) violates the following authorities
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