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A&A: My CPRA request was denied due to “attorney-client privilege”

Q: The Chair of the Board of Directors for the Fire Protection District wrote a letter which was published in a local newspaper. In that letter he made public, for the first time, the existence of a report the District had received from a private legal firm. He also made public some of the contents of the report. His exact text was, “This very expensive legal report states that each of these citations are either misinterpreted,

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A&A: When can a public Board claim attorney-client privilege?

Q: Our municipal board, of which I am a member, recently convened a closed session meeting that was not listed as an item on the published agenda. The purpose of the meeting, which included  a city attorney, was for several board members wanted to present their case against me as a Brown Act violator.  I believe the lawyer was invited to establish a claim of attorney-client privilege to hide their actions from public scrutiny. Can

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A&A: County Refusing to Share Mold Report they Say Requires Us to Vacate. How Can We Access that Report?

Q:  I am on the board of a nonprofit preschool in a county-owned building and we have just learned that our lease expired nearly two decades ago. This is an old building, but we have been declared safe by the company we hired to do our mold report. The county is refusing to show us their mold report, claiming attorney-client privilege. The county is trying to get us to vacate the building to do remediation

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A&A: Accessing Aggregated Medical Information for COVID-19 Deceased

Q: I was told by our county authorities that the county cannot release specific ages, gender, co-morbidities or housing situation (group homes vs. apartments vs. single-family homes) for those individuals whose cause of death was attributed to COVID-19 on the grounds that releasing that data would violate health information privacy rules under HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). I do not want a list of information for each individual. I want to aggregate data

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A&A: Help Needed In Requesting Documents from California Coastal Commission

Q: I need to access documents from the California Coastal Commission in an appeal, including information regarding upload logs of documents to their website, all interagency correspondences with Coastal regarding our project, any announcements of the hearing, and all communications between the Commission and any parties regarding our project but most important, correspondence between staff and a specific developer. Please advise. A: Under the California Public Records Act (CPRA), public records—which include “any writing containing

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