The Pasadena City Attorney's Office is so far from the Police Department

Reporter Nathan McIntire and I are working on an article about the paper's attempts to get records in the Leroy Barnes shooting case, and so far those attempts are going nowhere.

The paper filed a February 20 public records request to the Pasadena Police Department for video from the officers' car, as well as the identity of the officers themselves.

The police sent the request to the city attorney's office, which didn't respond to our request within the legally-required 10 days.

So yesterday we called them up to bug them about it, and today they have requested a 14 day extension. The reason?

A code in the Public Records Act allowing for a delay for "the need to search for and collect the requested records from field facilities or other establishments that are separate from the office processing the request."

In other words, 10 days was not enough time to get between the City Attorney's Office and the city Police Department.

We've also filed requests for the county coroner's office for the Barnes autopsy report.

More to come in the paper this weekend.