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A&A: What rules must agencies follow when redacting public documents?

FAC March 21, 2012

I’d like to inquire as to the public’s right of access to public records which contain some information an agency either must or may redact. Specifically:  May the public demand access to records and use their own equipment to reproduce or image (e.g. camera, scanner) the records?  May an agency charge a fee for access to records if no copy/reproduction is requested yet the agency must or chooses to redact some information from the responsive

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A&A: Globe trotting university official keeps tabs on dog sends bill to tax payers

FAC March 20, 2012

Q: I’m looking into a dean at one of the state universities who appears to spend a lot of university money on luxurious travel. I requested phone bills from the dean’s university-paid phone because I’d heard the dean’s dog is boarded at a kennel and the dean often calls the kennel from  international locales on UC’s dime. I got the phone bills but UC redacted all the phone numbers citing California Government Code §6254(c); Cal.

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A&A: Can Craigslist block political free speech?

FAC March 5, 2012

Q: I have been block a number of times from posting on the political board on Craigslist. I also have been threatened harassed and slandered by one poster on this site and a Craigslist tech  told me if I didn’t like it to just stop posting. My name and personal info has been posted by this harasser on the political site and even sex sites. I can’t believe if Craigslist is licensed by the Federal

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A&A: Can I be kicked off advisory committee for blogging about politics?

FAC March 5, 2012

A: I am a member of a Citizens Advisory Committee. It has quasi status as a ”affiliated” committee with the city, as it advises the city on federal grant funding within the citizen participation plan. I publish a blog which is very critical of political opponents. Last week, members of the committee tried to kick me off claiming my writing outside the committee was considered inflammatory. I believe this is prior restraint and a violation

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A&A: New rule places unreasonable time restraints on public comments

FAC March 5, 2012

Q: The new rule one of the county supervisors has been threatening to make formal, requires constituent speakers to aggregate all remarks on as many as a dozen or more separate items into one three minute slot isolated from other speakers and staff who may have commentary on individual items. This requires the speaker to provide a brief identifying description of each item, as the three  minutes clock is running. This process also segregates speakers

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