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Redactions and Withholdings

A source-linked log of records withheld or redacted by an agency, the legal authority the agency cited, and questions the released response leaves unresolved.

2 full withholdings1 partial redactionAgency-cited grounds
Amador Transparency Project, “Redactions and Withholdings,” Flock Surveillance Collection, updated July 27, 2026.

What this page does—and does not do

Each legal reason below is labeled as an agency-cited justification. Recording a citation does not mean the archive has concluded that the agency’s interpretation or application is correct. Independent commentary, when added, will be labeled Analysis.

3Logged actions
2Full withholdings
1Partially redacted production
3Authorities cited by agency

Searchable log

Current entries

The current log is limited to the legal grounds stated in the Sheriff’s Office response to request item 10.

3 values shown
Affected recordAgency actionAgency-cited justificationScope and open questionLinks
Network Audit
Request item 10		Full withholdingPrimary: Gov. Code § 7923.600(a)
Civil Code § 1798.90.55(b) and Gov. Code § 7927.705 were cited in the same paragraph.		The response does not describe the fields, date range, or potentially segregable portions.Details
Request
Organizational Audit
Request item 10		Full withholdingPrimary: Gov. Code § 7923.600(a)
Civil Code § 1798.90.55(b) and Gov. Code § 7927.705 were cited in the same paragraph.		The response does not describe the fields, date range, or potentially segregable portions.Details
Request
Administrative Event Log
Produced CSV		Partial redactionSame response paragraph: Gov. Code § 7923.600(a), Civil Code § 1798.90.55(b), and Gov. Code § 7927.705.The response does not identify the rows, fields, or values removed or match individual redactions to a specific authority.Details
CSV

Entry details

What the agency stated

Full withholding

Network Audit

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Agency
Amador County Sheriff’s Office
Response date
June 18, 2026
Location
Written response, request item 10, pages 1–2
Type
Full withholding · Investigatory-record withholding

Agency-cited justification

The agency stated that the Network Audit was considered an investigatory record and therefore exempt under Government Code § 7923.600(a). It cited Civil Code § 1798.90.55(b) and Government Code § 7927.705 in the same response paragraph.

Plain-language summary

The agency did not produce the Network Audit because it classified the record as investigatory.

Open question

The response does not describe the audit’s fields, date range, segregable portions, or which specific information would disclose ALPR information.

Full withholding

Organizational Audit

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Agency
Amador County Sheriff’s Office
Response date
June 18, 2026
Location
Written response, request item 10, pages 1–2
Type
Full withholding · Investigatory-record withholding

Agency-cited justification

The agency stated that the Organizational Audit was considered an investigatory record and therefore exempt under Government Code § 7923.600(a). It cited Civil Code § 1798.90.55(b) and Government Code § 7927.705 in the same response paragraph.

Plain-language summary

The agency did not produce the Organizational Audit because it classified the record as investigatory.

Open question

The response does not describe the audit’s fields, date range, segregable portions, or which specific information would disclose ALPR information.

Partial redaction

Administrative Event Log

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Affected document
Produced Event Log CSV
Agency
Amador County Sheriff’s Office
Response date
June 18, 2026
Type
Partial redaction · Investigatory-record withholding

Agency-cited justification

The agency stated that the raw Event Log contained investigatory-record information and that it redacted information it considered not subject to disclosure before producing the remaining spreadsheet. The response cited Government Code § 7923.600(a), Civil Code § 1798.90.55(b), and Government Code § 7927.705 in the same paragraph.

Plain-language summary

The agency produced the Event Log after removing information it considered exempt.

Open question

The response does not identify the specific columns, values, rows, identities, or event details removed, and it does not match each redaction to a particular cited authority.

Official references

Authorities cited in the response

These summaries explain what the cited text generally addresses. They are not conclusions about whether a particular withholding was lawful.

Agency cited

Government Code § 7923.600(a)

The section addresses specified law-enforcement investigatory, intelligence, and security records. The agency identified this as its primary reason for withholding the two audits.

Official California text →
Agency cited

Civil Code § 1798.90.55(b)

The subsection restricts a public agency from selling, sharing, or transferring ALPR information except to another public agency and as otherwise permitted by law.

Official California text →
Agency cited

Government Code § 7927.705

The section incorporates other federal or state laws that exempt or prohibit disclosure, including applicable privileges.

Official California text →

Segregable portions

Government Code § 7922.525(b) states that a reasonably segregable non-exempt portion is available after exempt material is removed. The Sheriff’s Office did not cite this section in the archived response; it is included as a procedural reference for how this archive records partial productions.

Official California text

Machine-readable records

Future redactions and withholdings can be added consistently through the project’s JSON data files. Each entry preserves the request, affected record, response location, withholding type, agency citation, agency explanation, plain-language summary, and open question.

Open redactions.jsonOpen legal-citations.json