Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.45

Civil Remedies

Known as the Information Practices Act

The act spans §§ 1798–1798 (64 sections).

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 28 Cal. 4th 419 - Filarsky v. Superior Court (2002)

Most recently applied in 158 Cal. App. 4th 187 - Lachtman v. Regents of University of California (December 2007)

Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 709.

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An individual may bring a civil action against an agency whenever such agency does any of the following:

(a) Refuses to comply with an individual’s lawful request to inspect pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1798.34.

(b) Fails to maintain any record concerning any individual with such accuracy, relevancy, timeliness, and completeness as is necessary to assure fairness in any determination relating to the qualifications, character, rights, opportunities of, or benefits to the individual that may be made on the basis of such record, if, as a proximate result of such failure, a determination is made which is adverse to the individual.

(c) Fails to comply with any other provision of this chapter, or any rule promulgated thereunder, in such a way as to have an adverse effect on an individual.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.