California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the National Archives and Records Administration on Wednesday, seeking to block the closure of its San Bruno facility and the transfer of its records to archives across the country.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, argues that the agency’s plan violates the Administrative Procedure Act because it was made without adequately considering how the move would affect people that rely on the records. Bonta is asking a judge to reverse the closure decision and stop the transfer of the materials.
The San Francisco National Archives, located in San Bruno, holds more than 75,000 cubic feet of records documenting Northern California, Central California, Hawaii, most of Nevada, Guam and American Samoa, according to Bonta…