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Foreign Nationals’ Open Government Rights Q: Do you have to be a US citizen to assert rights under California’s open-government laws? A: No, the rights created by CA’s access laws are not limited to citizens. Citizenship is irrelevant. Even foreign individuals and foreign corporations may assert the rights to open meetings (the Brown Act) and rights to public records (the California Public Records Act).

Former State Employees and the CPRA Q: I have a question regarding physical access to a public building. I am a former employee for the Housing Authority of my City, I recently went back to the Central Office building in which I worked to visit some personnel still working there. This building is open to the public and has public access areas, when I tried to enter the building I was informed by the security

The CPRA and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance Q: Are call detail reports – detailed billing of land, cell and fax phone numbers public records under CPRA and San Francisco enhanced Sunshine Ordinance? I know home phone numbers at times may be redacted but what about a person’s cell phone number? How would an agency know from a listing what are home, cell or office numbers? How does this square with the concept that some