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Police Blotter Information Q: The city’s Police Department’s blotter consists of the following information: Date, Time, Crime, Address The Public Records Act says “…state and local law enforcement agencies shall make public the following information…the time, substance, and location of all complaints or requests for assistance received by agency and the time and nature of the response including the extent the information regarding crimes alleged or committed or any other incident investigated is recorded, the

Awarding Attorney’s Fees in CPRA Cases Q: We just received a tentative ruling on a CPRA case against Caltrans where we prevailed completely and yet we were slapped with the majority of our attorney’s fees and costs without justification or rationale by the Superior Court. Even though Caltrans did not raise a single legal objection to the reasonableness of the attorney’s fees during the litigation, the Court drastically reduced the fees without citing any acceptable

The CPRA, the Brown Act and Retirement Trusts Q: An employee retirement trust is delegated the responsibility of providing and administering retiree health benefits by our school district.  The unions appoint four individuals, the district appoints four and it is unclear who appoints the two retirees on the board (10 board members total).  I filed PRAs last year, they responded to first one and then stopped responding.  I went to three public board meetings last