Corona must only pay $2,500 in legal fees to a public records requester, rather than the $43,300 Riverside Superior Judge Harold Hopp ordered the city to pay, an appellate court ruled Jan. 24.
An offer by the city to compromise was unnecessarily rejected by the court, The Fourth Appellate District Court of Appeal, Division Two, said in their published opinion.
The litigation came from Alisha Kinney’s Dec. 23, 2019, public records request to Corona for the name of a carjacking victim from May 23, 2019. She had found out about the carjacking from an online news article.
Corona city staff denied Kinney’s request Jan. 6, 2020, claiming the owner’s
