Battle over police records reaches California appeals court

The California attorney general's office is urging a state appeals court to refrain from ordering it to review and publicly release a massive trove of records documenting investigations into police shootings, use-of-force incidents and officer misconduct. Lawyers for Attorney General Xavier Becerra say a transparency law that took effect this year never intended for his office to commit the extraordinary resources needed to vet so many records. They sought to reverse a lower court's order to turn over the records to news organizations that sued his office. The lawyer for news organizations said the public's right to know outweighs any inconvenience for the attorney general.