In early July 2019, State Bar employees provided several high-ranking law school Deans with a list of the test subjects to be given on the bar exam in a few weeks' time. Some of these Dean's shared this list with their students prematurely. Learning that some schools had this information and others didn't, the State Bar decided to release the shortened list to all exam takers, despite the difference in time that some students had over others to prepare. A report issued by the California Judicial Council concluded that the release was inadvertent "human error" but redacted the names of State Bar personnel responsible for the error.