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A&A: CA Supreme Court denied my petition and I demand the right to know why

FAC April 12, 2012

Q: A petition for review to the CA Supreme Court is assigned to a legal staff who drafts a ”conference memorandum” which summarizes the case facts, outlines the issues, and makes a recommendation to the court whether the case presents sufficiently important issues for review. Under the ”petition clause” of the constitution I feel that I should have the right to review such “conference memorandum” to insure integrity of the process when 99 out of

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A&A:Trying to gain access to police records on musician’s unresolved cause of death

FAC April 12, 2012

Q: I have been trying to get information regarding the death of a musician-songwriter for a few years now. He died in 2003 from stab wounds and his case was declared inconclusive by the police, and has remained open since. The police has never been able to determine if it was a suicide or a murder. I know that the police have some files and reports that even the family were not allowed to see,

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A&A: Agency charging $2k for redacting electronic records

FAC April 12, 2012

Q: I received a cost breakdown from a California State Agency, which proposes to charge me more than $2,000 to produce what is essentially a list of names. Much of the cost involves redaction. Initially, the cost was presented to me as ”programming costs,” which are allowed for electronic records, but their cost breakdown covers mostly staff time for a massive redaction effort.  Are they abiding by the Public Records Act? A: The Public Records

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A&A: Agency claims my CPRA requests via email are “not public records act request”

FAC March 30, 2012

Q: In response to an emailed request for public records, the local agency responded that my “series of emails were not a public records act request.” In turn, they withheld the requested information. Of course, it could be that I’ve been not asking for the right thing in the appropriate way?  I’ve been requesting information based on the Attorney General’s  2004 PRA Summary, page 3: “The essence of the CPRA is to provide access to

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A&A: Should I be allowed to access a report in draft form?

FAC March 29, 2012

Q: I have made a request for a report commissioned by the city to evaluate the police department. My request was denied on the grounds that the report is in draft form. A similar report on the fire department was released as a “draft final report.” That report has since been removed from public access “for further analysis.”  The report on the PD has been read by the police chief, city manager’s office and other

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