"California state government provides tremendous resources online for the public to learn about our great state," said California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. "Our partnership with Google will empower Californians to know more about our government and provide better access to services and helpful information."

"Connecting citizens with their government by offering the public better access to public sector information and services is consistent with our broader vision – to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," said Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman and CEO. "These partnerships are among many that Google is pursuing with government agencies to better serve the public."

Privacy issues arise whenever information is made accessible online. The problem in this situation is that in many cases the information is part of the public record. Improving searchability makes it easier for people and organisations to amass information about individuals, and increases the risk of widespread disclosure if information is mistakenly made available online.{moscomment}