Enterprise System Catalog

Senate Bill 272 - California Public Records Act

Approved by California Governor Jerry Brown on October 11, 2015, Senate Bill 272 adds a section to the California Public Records Act requiring many local government agencies in California to create and post online a catalog of Enterprise Systems by July 1, 2016, with annual updates.

Enterprise System

An Enterprise System, as defined by Senate Bill 272, is a software application or computer system that collects, stores, exchanges, and analyzes information an agency uses that is both of the following:

• A multi-departmental system or a system that contains information collected about the public
  
• A system that serves as a 'system of record' or an original source of data within an agency

Enterprise System Catalog

1. catalog of enterprise systems contains:
   • System’s purpose
   • Description of categories or types of data
   • Department that is the prime custodian of the data
   • Frequency that system data is collected
   • Frequency that system data is updated
2. To make the catalog publicly available upon request
3. To post the catalog in a prominent location on the agency's website

View the text of Senate Bill 272.
Enterprise Systems - Wikipedia