Environment
Schwarzenegger signs sacred site measure into law


California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) signed into a law a bill that keeps information about sacred sites from being released to the public.

Most sacred site information isn't released to the public. But the information could be disclosed under a two-year old law that requires local governments to talk to tribes before building in sacred areas.

SB 922 [Link] now exempts those communications from the state's Public Records Act. Any information that tribes give to local governments will remain protected.

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Law will keep state's sacred tribal sites under wraps (The North County Times 10/13)