Each agency shall maintain in its records only personal information which is relevant and necessary to accomplish a purpose of the agency required or authorized by the California Constitution or statute or mandated by the federal government.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.14
Agency Requirements
Known as the Information Practices Act
The act spans §§ 1798 to 1798.78 (64 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 98 Cal. App. 4th 492 - Alfaro v. Terhune (2002)
Most recently applied in 144 Cal. App. 4th 258 - People v. McCray (October 2006)
Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 595, Sec. 5.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.