Asked & Answered

Q: The City administration is wrongfully terminating employees as punishment for asking for disability retirement. I am a victim. They are withholding emails by wrongfully applying the deliberative process exemption to protect themselves from lawsuit for the wrongful termination. I have written proof. I have contacted this agency once before using this form but never got a response. I thought I would try one more time. A: If you believe that your City is wrongfully withholding documents

Q: The city’s communication offices refuses to add us to their official media e-mail list, that sends information and notices about events the mayor will attend or news conferences. The office also purposely refuses to answer our calls and e-mails, based on our legitimate news coverage. What recourse do we have to at least compel them to add us to their news e-mail list? A: This is a tricky issue.  Once a government agency decides

Q: I called and reported a radiation exam concern last year to my state’s public health department. After months of trying to obtain the results of the inspection report, I was told I had to submit my request online which I then did. The report lacked specificity and appeared to be lacking all of the information. I then requested public records for a period of 5 years on the machine used. I received a statement stating

Q: I am a parent who submitted an application to run for the Parent Representative position at my child’s Charter school. The elections committee deemed me unqualified under their recently changed bylaws (amended after the application deadline). I requested to attend Election Committee meetings, and was told they are not subject to Brown Act. I submitted a PRA for all minutes and communications from Election Committee meetings, and was told there were not records responsive

Q: Is it legal for a government attorney to mark a PRA response as being “Confidential”? Confidential is followed by “Note: This media is intended to be viewed by certain individuals. It may contain information that is privileged or protected from disclosure by law. If you are not the intended recipient, any action in reliance on the content of this media is strictly prohibited…” These financial records have been kept secret from the board and