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  "title": "California Public Records: A Technical and Legal Reference for the Post-AB 473 Era",
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  "creators": [
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      "name": "Friedman, Daniel Ari",
      "affiliation": "Active Inference Institute",
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  "description": "A technical and legal reference to California's public-records ecosystem, anchored by the California Public Records Act (CPRA), recodified by Assembly Bill 473 effective January 2023 to Government Code §§ 7920.000 et seq., and extended in practice through state and local open-data portals, request platforms, API frameworks (CKAN, Socrata, ArcGIS), metadata schemas, intergovernmental data-sharing surfaces, and exemption rules.",
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    "California Public Records Act",
    "open data",
    "CKAN",
    "Socrata",
    "ArcGIS",
    "cognitive security",
    "civic technology"
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  "checked_at": "2026-06-21T00:00:00Z",
  "domain": "Cognitive Security",
  "type": "Paper",
  "methods": [
    {
      "name": "California Public Records Act (CPRA) legal analysis",
      "description": "Applied california public records act (cpra) legal analysis approach"
    },
    {
      "name": "Open-data portal integration (CKAN/Socrata/ArcGIS)",
      "description": "Applied open-data portal integration (ckan/socrata/arcgis) approach"
    },
    {
      "name": "Government transparency framework evaluation",
      "description": "Applied government transparency framework evaluation approach"
    }
  ],
  "key_findings": [
    "California's AB 473 recodification of CPRA to Government Code §§ 7920.000 et seq. creates new technical access surfaces for public records",
    "CKAN, Socrata, and ArcGIS API ecosystems form the operational backbone of California open-data infrastructure",
    "Exemption rules constrain automated access and require domain-specific mitigation strategies for civic technology"
  ],
  "related_papers": [
    "2020_EmergentTeams",
    "2020_FacilitatorsCatechism",
    "2020_GreatPreset"
  ]
}