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Seal Beach clerk details rising public‑records workload, digital tools and archival obligations
Summary
City Clerk's office told council it responded to hundreds of public records requests in the past year, described the NextRequest system and Laserfiche archive, and flagged substantial staff time and legal redactions as resource pressures.
Seal Beach’s City Clerk described how public-records and records-management work contribute to staff workload and budget planning at the May 6 budget workshop.
The nut graf: the clerk said the department responded to more than 384 public-records requests last fiscal year and has systems in place—NextRequest for PRA intake and Laserfiche for archived records—but staff time and required redaction make these requests resource‑intensive.
The City Clerk (unnamed in the transcript) told council the city uses NextRequest to receive and route public-records requests to departments and…
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