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Q: I am service connected veteran openly criticizing government officials at the Veterans Administration. By exercising my rights under the constitution I was subjected to a pattern of retaliation from being denied educational benefits, denied requests for information about my vocational rehabilitation records, and denied due process under the 5th Amendment. What can I do? A: The First Amendment generally guards against “[o]fficial reprisal” because retaliation for exercising one’s right to protected speech “threatens to

Q: My recent request for public records was granted. However, the agency wants to charge me about $6000 to supply the records because of the staff time it will supposedly take to compile them all from the various warehouses in which the paper records are stored. And they want to charge for the time spent reacting the forms. They claim that they are authorized to do this because the Business and Professions Code gives them the power to charge

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 —