California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Oppel, 222 Cal.App.3d 1146, 272 Cal.Rptr. 340 (Cal. App. 1990):
6 We distinguish the instant situation, involving an affidavit in support of a motion for disclosure of a confidential informant's identity ( 1042(d)), from that involving an affidavit supporting a motion for discovery of police records ( 1043, subd. (b)(3)). In the latter situation an attorney's affidavit made on information and belief suffices, because the statutory scheme in question does not require personal knowledge of the material facts or of particular prior complaints. (City of Santa Cruz v. Municipal Court (1989) 49 Cal.3d 74, 86-93, 260 Cal.Rptr. 520, 776 P.2d 222.)
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