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Search Results for: 6254(f) police blotter

A&A: Requests for crime reports denied by police department

FAC July 10, 2017

Q:  I am a reporter, and I’ve been having trouble obtaining crime reports from our local police department. I’ve requested crime reports twice and both times I’m told that they are being withheld because of Government Code section 6254(f). To be clear, one time I requested all crime reports that had been filed over a month period. The second time, I requested the reports for three specific crimes. Both times, the office cited section 6254(f).

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A&A: Police say daily crime logs can’t be released to the public

FAC June 17, 2016

Q: I have been seeking release of daily crime logs through the Police Department, preferably the day they are issued. The log is maintained by a patrol officer for 24-hour periods between 4 a.m. and 4 a.m. and through CPRA request have successfully obtained past logs electronically in .doc or .pdf format. However, the department Public Information Officer (PIO )has refused to provide the daily log when requested claiming they need to be double-checked for accuracy

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A&A: Can I access driver ID’s from traffic-stop police reports?

FAC April 16, 2015

Q: I am working on a story about traffic stops and would like to request the city’s police department for records related to about 10 incidents involving drivers with suspended licenses (I have the incident numbers). But before I make my request: Can the police department deny me accessing the name, address or other fields in police reports of those incidents? Or is the entire report written by a police officer on duty public? A: Unfortunately,

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A&A: Denied police records because they were not in “searchable format”

FAC August 17, 2012

Q: I submitted a rather complex public records request to a number of local police agencies. My requests sought records pertaining to individuals detained by local police and subsequently turned over to federal immigration authorities, without formal arrest. My requests have been denied on various grounds, but most of them on the basis of County of LA v. Superior Court, the Kusar case. My request does require the search of numerous documents going back to

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Online Sheriff’s Blotter

firstamendment June 14, 2009

Online Sheriff’s Blotter Q: The County Sheriff Department maintains a website that contains a sheriff’s blotter of recent calls and related arrests by community.  When I first started using this website to track crime in my community, the information about arrests included the charges filed, felony status, jurisdiction issuing warrants, etc.  That information was removed about 18 months ago and replaced with this statement: “Due to security concerns, we have discontinued posting detailed inmate information on this website. Information required

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