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Q: I submitted a California Public Records Act request to the California Department of Public Health, Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC), Gov. Newsom, CA Department of Tax and Fee Administration and Attorney General Xavier Becerra regarding the voter mandated nonprofit feasibility study required by the text of CA Prop 64. I received a response from all agencies, except the BCC stated the department needed 60 days to produce the records they were in possession of.

Q:  I am a reporter working on a story about medical care for in inmates at our county jail. I recently discovered that the county hired an outside consultant (a doctor) to conduct a review of those services. The consultant created a report that the county then used to implement reforms. Naturally, I requested the report but was denied. Here was the county’s response: “The Report you seek is a confidential document. [the doctor] was retained

Q:  In response to public comment that I made before the school board, the school district’s Charter School Division sent an email to a charter school asking for data so that they could report back to the Board.  I sent a Public Records Act request to the District asking for a copy of the report that was generated using this data. The school district has informed me that the records that I requested are exempt

Q:  Is there any new case law on deliberative process privilege? I read on the website that in 2008 the CA court of appeals ruled Prop. 59 didn’t eliminate the deliberative process privilege. So, is the fact that the right to know is a constitutional right a dead argument? Can the privilege be claimed to prevent deposition of City Council members if it is believed their motivation was discrimination and retaliation? I hope there has

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