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What is a Draft? How does that affect Public Records Requests? Q: An agenda report references a third party report. An excerpt from the agenda report: “The city engaged the services of Company to provide a cost benefit analysis of the proposed annexation. The preliminary results show that at project build out…a positive impact… of $1 million annually. This financial analysis will be refined throughout the process….” I requested to see the document, but the

Public/Private Interest Tests, Publics Records, And the Department of Housing and Community Development Q: I am trying to obtain from the Department of Housing and Community Development a list of those cities and/or counties that applied for designation as an Enterprise Zone in Sept. 2006.  The Dept. first responded to my request stating that they would take more time. Today I have received a letter from them denying my request based on the reason that “the

California Driver’s License Numbers and the CPRA Q: Must a public agency provide driver’s licenses of business owners it licenses? Can or must the public agency redact any of the information like the actual CDL number? A: As you may know, California’s Public Records Act provides that all documents created, owned, or maintained by a public agency are presumptively available for public inspection unless one of the PRA’s exemptions applies.  Govt. Code § 6253(a).  One

Disclosure of Traffic Tickets, Personal Information Q: I found a traffic ticket of a person I’m trying to locate in the civil case index in my county.  I went to traffic court to get the address on the ticket and they said I could not see the address.  I researched the CPRA, but I am still unsure if traffic ticket is exempt from disclosure, being that it is a civil case.  Can you please help