SAN DIEGO — Chula Vista wants the state’s highest court to weigh in on whether its police drone footage can be kept secret. It is the latest development in a case that was filed against the South Bay city in 2021. Arturo Castanares, a Chula Vista resident and the owner and publisher of the bilingual news organization La Prensa San Diego, sued after the city refused to provide footage recorded by the Police Department’s drones. In April, a San Diego Superior Court judge agreed with the city’s legal position that none of the videos had to be released under the California Public Records Act becau…
