Thanks for the tip on CalAware Daniel! I'll add them to FGI's organizations page. As I was looking through their site, I came upon an interesting article entitled, "The devil in the metadata." Read on:

Although the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force has already hashed over the minutiae of this issue and ruled that metadata can and should be released, the mystery enshrouding what it is, and the lack of any specific policy or known precedent in other cities or states with public records laws has pushed the discussion upstream to where a formal legislation has become a possibility.

Freedom of information purists are saying all the parts and pieces of a document are part of the public domain, while the City Attorney’s Office is claiming another layer of protection may be required.

Isn't that interesting. I'd say that definitely metadata is part of a document and should be included in any public records. It reminds me of the story a year or so ago where Bruce McPherson, the CA secretary of state, got in some hot water because a Word document that he supposedly wrote about testing procedures for Diebold electronic voting machines was actually written by Diebold's own Steve Pelletier. Without access to the metadata -- specifically the "properties" feature on Word document in question -- this highly inappropriate, if not illegal issue of the regulated writing the regulations would never have seen the light of day.