Approved by CA Governor Jerry Brown, Senate Bill 272 (SB272) adds a section to the State Public Records Act requiring state and most local government agencies, except a local educational agency, to create a catalog of enterprise systems which contain public information, to make the catalog publicly available upon request in the office of the person or officer designated by the agency’s legislative body, and to post the catalog on the local agency’s web site.  This bill requires the catalog to disclose a list of the enterprise systems utilized by the agency, the current system vendor and product, unless, on the facts of the particular case, the public interest served by not disclosing that information clearly outweighs the public interest served by disclosure, in which case the local agency may instead provide a system name, brief title, or identifier of the system. 

An Enterprise System, as defined by SB272, is a software application or computer system that collects, stores, exchanges, and analyzes information an agency uses that is both of the following:

• A multi-departmental system or a system that contains information collected about the public
• A system that serves as a “system of record” or an original source of data within any agency

 

Inventory of SB 272 Enterprise Applications_03202026.pdf