To help ensure government decisions are in the public’s best interest, California law requires many officials to disclose their financial interests on public forms.

Those disclosures — known as form 700s — report officials’ outside income, gifts and investments so the public can see whether those conflict with their decisions.

State law says they’re public records, and that agencies have to make each disclosure available to the public within two business days of it being filed.

But attorneys for the nation’s biggest county government are taking longer than that. Much longer — citing difficulty pulling a large number of records at one time.

In late August, LAist requested the disclosures filed by employees of L.A. County Counsel Dawyn Harrison’s office since 2023. Ten days after the req

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