From Sac Bee:
Assemblyman Anthony Portantino was mad about money, not records.
But his spat with Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez has sparked a rare fight over public access to legislative records, launched by The Bee and Los Angeles Times, in Sacramento Superior Court.
Hundreds of pages of documents have been filed in a case that could help define the limits of the 36-year-old Legislative Open Records Act.
At the heart of the dispute are budgets for individual Assembly members, any changes made to them by Pérez, and monthly projections about whether lawmakers are exceeding those budgets.
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