California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from L. A. Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors v. Superior Court of L. A. Cnty., 2 Cal.5th 282, 212 Cal.Rptr.3d 107, 386 P.3d 773 (Cal. 2016):
3 Government Code section 6254, subdivision (k) states that the Public Records Act does not require disclosure of the following records: "Records, the disclosure of which is exempted or prohibited pursuant to federal or state law, including, but not limited to, provisions of the Evidence Code relating to privilege ." (Italics added.) "By its reference to the privileges contained in the Evidence Code, therefore, the Public Records Act has made the attorney-client privilege applicable to public records." (Roberts v. City of Palmdale (1993) 5 Cal.4th 363, 370, 20 Cal.Rptr.2d 330, 853 P.2d 496.)
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