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A&A: Is A Letter From A Water District Lawyer A City Attorney Public?

FAC December 7, 2018

Q: The Municipal Water District had a contract to deliver water, but wanted to modify it. The District’s lawyer wrote a letter to the city attorney, attaching a draft civil complaint, asking for a set of changes, threatening to sue otherwise. “Settlement” meetings were in closed session. Now that a new contract has been agreed to, is the first letter a public record? How can we get it? A: It seems that the letter from

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A&A: My PRA request denied, but Buzzfeed published documents on similar case

FAC September 2, 2016

Q: In 2014, I was working as a pharmacist for a temp agency that sent me to a District Hospital for three months. This hospital had many issues, and I tried to fix some of them. After I left, a CBOP inspector (a specially trained pharmacist) investigated the hospital pharmacy. In December of 2015, I received a letter from the CBOP citing me for a total of $5000. I was advised by my attorney that since it is a government

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A&A: Can I access attorney’s retainer agreement and invoices via the Public Records Act?

FAC July 2, 2015

Q: Our local fire district and its former chief, a “retired CalPERS annuitant,” are involved in a judicial process contesting a pension amount owed due to “double dipping” The elected officials have held numerous closed sessions to discuss these legal matters. In an attempt to discover if the fire district is using taxpayer dollars to defend the chief’s portion of the CalPERS claim, I did a PRA request on  to view a number of invoices paid for

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A&A: City finds many ways to deny CPRA requests for emails

FAC May 31, 2013

Q: My newspaper has had difficulty accessing City emails via public records requests. Our city has a written policy of only making available email from the city server (city manager, city finance director, etc.) for a 30 day time period from the date of the submission of the public record request. PRA requests are repeatedly denied for documents (specifically email) outside the 30-day window even though that email still exists on city servers and are

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A&A: Accessing county’s payments to a doctor now under arrest for molestation

FAC November 12, 2011

Q: I am a journalist and victims advocate. I wanted to know about whether it was possible to get records of payments made by all  County agencies–including the District Attorney’s office–to a child psychiatrist. The psychiatrist was arrested for molesting hundreds of boys and was under contract to the courts for four decades. We have reason to believe the DA’s office hired him as well, which would make their prosecution of him a conflict of

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