have done and say, ‘Wow, why would they do that?’”

Those things range from the tragic, such as sexual assault in jails and domestic violence, to the bizarre, like a state agent and part-time deputy sheriff who stole tens of thousands of bullets from two agencies. He was caught, but never criminally charged.

But the majority of records this news organization and its partners, KQED News and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, requested from hundreds of agencies on Jan. 1 remain secret. Some departments purged records before and even after the law took effect.

On Jan. 16, two weeks after SB 1421 became effective, the Yuba County Sheriff destroyed years of records, including internal affairs investigations of dishonesty and sexual misconduct, despite receiving multiple records requests.

County Counsel Andrew Naylortook certain cash and other articles from the cash register while the other three waited in the defendant's automobile. After Smith returned to the car they drove rapidly to another point where Smith held up a liquor store while the others again waited. After the second holdup Smith gave the defendant a part of the cash taken, although it does not clearly appear from which place it came, and the party then visited various night clubs.
 The defendant was charged with the crime of robbery under two counts, the first relating to the robbery of the doughnut shop and the second to the robbery of the liquor store. He was convicted on the first count and has appealed from the judgment entered and from an order denying his