Ensuring openness while protecting privacy
Information Practices, within the Office of Campus Counsel, administers the campus’s response to requests for public and subpoenaed University records and provides technical and practical assistance to the campus on matters related to public access to and disclosure of information maintained in University files.
Process Servers:
Additional Office Closure: Information Practices will be unavailable for subpoena service on Wednesday, October 1, 2025.
Please note the campus is closed for the following holidays
Veterans Day: November 11, 2025
Thanksgiving Holiday: November 27-29, 2025
Winter Holiday: December 22, 2025 – January 2, 2026
Ensuring openness while protecting privacy
Information Practices, within the Office of Campus Counsel, administers the campus’s response to requests for public and subpoenaed University records and provides technical and practical assistance to the campus on matters related to public access to and disclosure of information maintained in University files.
Privacy consists of (1) an individual’s ability to conduct activities without concern of or actual observation and (2) the appropriate protection, use, and release of information about individuals.
The University must balance its respect for both types of privacy with its other values and with legal, policy, and administrative obligations. (Read more about UC Privacy Principles)
Public Records Access & Disclosure Guidelines
The University of California, Santa Cruz is simultaneously committed to the individual’s right to privacy and the public’s right to information access, as required by federal and state laws and university policies and procedures.
University of California Policies
Complete policies, procedural guidelines, and references for accessing nonstudent records are published in the UC Business and Finance Bulletins RMP Series.
The University of California makes every effort to respect individual privacy consistent with the right to privacy declared in the California Constitution. UC privacy principles and practices are articulated in the UC Privacy and Information Security Initiative.
California State Law
In general, California law recognizes two competing interests, the right of an individual to personal privacy (Information Practices Act, California Constitution) and the right of the public to access information concerning the conduct of the people’s business (California Public Records Act). More…