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A&A: City avoiding disclosure of personal email

FAC January 13, 2012

Q: A council member has claimed in public meetings and in the press to have received email regarding a particular issue. Our PRA requesting those email have been rejected by the city because they do not have email accounts for council members. However on the city website the link to contact council members is the council member’s personal email account. If the city is listing the personal email as the contact, then shouldn’t email from

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A&A: The author of requested emails assigned to fulfill PRA request

FAC August 5, 2011

Q: I requested information regarding communications of someone who works directly for our County and also is on our City Council. The County Administrator gave her the PRA request and is allowing her to fulfill it herself. Is this legal? I requested emails to a certain person from her. A: The Public Records Act does not, as far as I can tell, specify who at a particular agency is required to oversee the fulfillment of

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A&A: School personnel campaigning on public dime

FAC October 27, 2010

Q: Can I request emails from the school district without using an attorney? I want to request emails between the superintendent and other employees, assistant superintendent and union reps, and board members and school employees? Reason: I have seen hard evidence that they are campaigning on school time, using equipment to run campaigning materials and requesting contributions for incumbents during school time. Please let me know. A: Members of the public can request public records

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A&A: Mayor up for reelection wants to stifle public comment on candidates

FAC August 30, 2010

Q: The mayor who is running for reelection is currently advancing a policy revision to stifle the public comments during City Council meetings of anyone who is speaking to a ballot initiative or on a candidate. Recently the mayor discussed the changes she’s proposing in an interview with a local newspaper and mentioned email communication with the city attorney aimed at creating a city policy that disallows speakers on non agenda items from topics of

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A&A: How does the CPRA deal with emails between elected officials

FAC August 21, 2010

Q: Can email sent by a California Special District elected official to other directors or the district office concerning district business be subject to examination using the Public Records Act? Would it make a difference if he used his personal computer to send an email to another elected official? A: Under California’s Public Records Act, “any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public’s business prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state

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