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A&A: Fees for “compiling” digital documents at UC?

FAC May 15, 2012

Q: I am trying to obtain public records at my university which are stored in electronic format. I have been told that I will be charged $.20 per page for the electronic record and, upon inquiring about this fee have been referred to the following policy by the California State University: Public Records Act? The records that I am trying to obtain are in ready-made format and used for analysis by the CSU on a

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A&A: Globe trotting university official keeps tabs on dog sends bill to tax payers

FAC March 20, 2012

Q: I’m looking into a dean at one of the state universities who appears to spend a lot of university money on luxurious travel. I requested phone bills from the dean’s university-paid phone because I’d heard the dean’s dog is boarded at a kennel and the dean often calls the kennel from  international locales on UC’s dime. I got the phone bills but UC redacted all the phone numbers citing California Government Code §6254(c); Cal.

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A&A: School Site Council tactics intimidate parents, public

FAC February 3, 2012

Q: I am interested in a possible cause of action arising from events at a meeting of the high school Site Council, at which public comment was cut off by the chair.  The individual was repeatedly ruled “out of order.” The person was then ordered out of the meeting and, when he failed to comply, an armed police officer was summoned. The officer, however, determined that situation was not a police matter and refused to

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A&A: Are Community College Faculty Senate meetings covered by the Brown Act?

FAC January 30, 2012

Q: I believe Community College Faculty Senates are subject to the Brown Act?  If so, must these bodies disclose how each member voted on an item? I teach at a community college.  My program was asked to make some amendments to an item, otherwise an individual told us she would challenge the matter. We made the amendments. The indivdiual then actually went ahead and challenged the matter at a Faculty Senate open meeting. She also

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A&A: Accessing a school district’s settlement agreements

FAC January 20, 2012

Q: To what extent are school district settlement agreements public when they contain confidential student information? A:  Copies of settlement agreements that school districts enter into are subject to disclosure under the Public Records Act. Although it should generally be possible to draft a settlement agreement without including material so sensitive that it qualifies for an exemption from disclosure under the PRA, it is conceivable that a settlement agreement might contain material legitimately exempt from

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