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Q: I cover the County Board of Supervisors. During a discussion in open session regarding a legal settlement involving a civil lawsuit against the county filed by a victim of alleged sexual molestation by a county physician, the supervisors discussed corrective action the county would take in response to the lawsuit. However when I asked for a copy of the Corrective Action Plan document, which is sometime posted with the settlement information, I was told the

A: I want to request a copy of the recordings or transcripts of phone calls placed by an inmate at the County Jail. Are there cases or laws that I can use in my request to argue for releasing this media? [su_button url=”https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/legal-hotline” target=”blank” style=”flat” background=”#23a0f3″ color=”#111010″ size=”5″ wide=”yes” center=”yes” radius=”0″ desc=”Click Here!” class=”div { font-size:x-small; }”]Denied public records? Ask FAC’s free Legal Hotline for help![/su_button] Q: Under the California Public Records Act (“PRA”), public records —

Q: My question: The Police Commission has the unfortunate practice of allowing the Chief of Police to sit on the dais with them when they meet. What I’m wondering is, is it legal for him to remain empaneled with them when they go into “closed session” (i.e. secret meeting where members of the public are told to leave the room)? A: The Brown Act serves to facilitate public participation in all phases of local government decision-making, and

Q: I am a former public school teacher who was accused of misconduct. I signed a settlement September 2014 in order to resign from the district. Now my case is coming up for review with the CA Commission on Teacher Credentialing. I believe materials provided by the School District have been falsified. I submitted a CPRA request on June 18, 2015, received the ten-day letter on July 10, 2015, but still have not received the requested records.

Q: California animal shelters use sodium pentobarbital to perform euthanasia on shelter animals by lethal injection. Sodium pentobarbital is a Class 3 controlled substance, and consequently, its use is regulated by state and federal law. Shelters are required to keep a log of euthanasia performed in order to keep track of the usage of the controlled drug. Each line of the log contains the dosage administered, the bottle number, the amount remaining in the bottle,