SECTIONS 71660 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 71660

71660. Each trial court shall adopt personnel rules, subject to the
obligation to meet and confer in good faith, to provide trial court
employees with access to their official personnel files. The rules
shall provide, at a minimum, that all of the following applies:
(a) Each trial court shall, at reasonable times and intervals,
permit an employee, upon that employee's request, to inspect any
personnel files that are used, or have been used, to determine that
employee's qualifications for employment, promotion, additional
compensation, or termination or other disciplinary action.
(b) Each trial court shall keep a copy of each employee's official
personnel files at the place where the employee reports to work, or
shall make the official personnel files available where the employee
reports to work within a reasonable period of time after a request
for the official personnel files by the employee.
(c) Records of a trial court employee relating to the
investigation of a possible criminal offense, letters of reference,
and other matters protected by constitutional, statutory, or common
law provisions, shall be excluded from the personnel files for
purposes of this section.