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A&A: CPRA ten-day deadline for request responses: Is that business days or calendar days?

FAC September 16, 2015

Q: Regarding the CPRA’s mandate that an agency must respond to a request within 10 days , FAC and other groups claim this means calendar days, not working days. Is there some compelling basis for this belief? A:  Unless a statute containing a time limitation specifies that “days” means court days or business days, the default is to calculate using calendar days.  If a particular deadline falls on a weekend or holiday, then the deadline is typically moved up to the

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A&A: What does the CPRA say about an agency charging a $48 “clerical fee”?

FAC September 15, 2015

Q:  I’m interested in getting some feedback from someone a little more experienced at filing public records act requests. I’m a little suspicious of the Department of Fair Employment and Housing charging a $48 “clerical fee”although their invoice does not list the amount of pages or mailing fee, implying the search has not yet been done. The request I made was for copies of complaints made against several businesses. Your thoughts? A: From your inquiry I understand that you

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A&A: My CPRA request was denied due to “attorney-client privilege”

FAC September 14, 2015

Q: The Chair of the Board of Directors for the Fire Protection District wrote a letter which was published in a local newspaper. In that letter he made public, for the first time, the existence of a report the District had received from a private legal firm. He also made public some of the contents of the report. His exact text was, “This very expensive legal report states that each of these citations are either misinterpreted,

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A&A: How can my records request meet deadline if staff assigned is on vacation?

FAC September 11, 2015

  Q: I made a Public Records Request and received confirmation, but the attorney wrote that my request for is too complex to release now. I sent a reply and learned that the attorney left on vacation for a week. I don’t think there’s an I’m-on-vacation exception in the CPRA. What do I do now? A: The PRA sets forth certain clear requirements with respect to timing of disclosure, and agencies should not be permitted to simply disregard them.

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A&A: How do I find which grant funded school district position using CPRA

FAC September 9, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”84544″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] Q: There have been several newly created positions in our school district. One says, “grant funded.” I’m looking to find which grant, but I’m not sure what document to ask for. Can you help? [/vc_column_text][ult_buttons btn_title=”Exercise your right to know! Ask FAC’s Legal Hotline your own question!” btn_link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Ffacelementor.wpengine.com%2Flegal-hotline||” btn_align=”ubtn-center” btn_size=”ubtn-custom” btn_width=”630″ btn_height=”70″ btn_padding_left=”10″ btn_padding_top=”10″ btn_bg_color=”#00ade5″ icon=”Defaults-desktop” icon_size=”42″ icon_color=”#000000″ btn_icon_pos=”ubtn-sep-icon-at-left” btn_border_style=”outset” btn_color_border=”rgba(244,244,244,0.37)” btn_color_border_hover=”#ffffff” btn_border_size=”5″ btn_radius=”5″ btn_shadow=”shd-bottom” btn_shadow_color=”#a8a8a8″ btn_shadow_size=”5″ btn_shadow_click=”enable” enable_tooltip=”yes” tooltip_text=”It’s FREE!” tooltip_pos=”top”

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