The Golden State is the most populous in the Unites States, and the third largest by area.  So where do you start when it comes to obtaining public records, finding different people, and getting a hold of different legal documents to replace the ones that you have lost after all of these years?  Well, thanks to the California Publics Record Act, or CPRA, there is a series of acts that define citizen’s rights to be able to have access to public records of governmental bodies in California.  To clear up any confusion as to what “Public Records” are, they are actually defined as ‘any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public’s business prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics.’