Asked & Answered

The CPRA, the Brown Act and Retirement Trusts Q: An employee retirement trust is delegated the responsibility of providing and administering retiree health benefits by our school district.  The unions appoint four individuals, the district appoints four and it is unclear who appoints the two retirees on the board (10 board members total).  I filed PRAs last year, they responded to first one and then stopped responding.  I went to three public board meetings last

Applicability of the Public Records Act to Private Text Messages Q: I read in the Examiner that Mayor Newsom has refused to turn over Hawaii-based communications related to his conversations re: the Busan oil spill.  He claims that the phone records and text messages are not public record because he used his personal iPhone and has not submitted a request for reimbursement from the City. I have checked the Sunshine Law, Brown Act and CA