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Don Imus, Snoop Dogg and the 1st Amendment
June 2, 2009
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Obtaining names of individuals involved in an incident
[…] imposed disciplinary measures, can only get it within the context of filing a lawsuit, and the courts have read this as exempting such files from the Public Records Act. However, at least one decision has ruled under similar circumstances that this should not prevent a newspaper from getting the names of the individuals that […]June 14, 2009
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The first amendment is in trouble when EU bureaucrats get to decide what US citizens can read on US-based websites
December 15, 2014
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Lights back on at wikileaks
[…] locking the wikileaks domain name--effectively shutting down the entire website--in response to a suit by Julius Baer Bank, a Swiss and Cayman Islands bank, over leaked banking records that had been posted to wikileaks. The judge both rescinded the locking order and denied a motion to extend a TRO focused more narrowly on the […]June 3, 2009
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When does the 10 days count start with a CPRA request?
Section 6253 of the Government Code, which sets forth the 10-day compliance period under the Public Records Act, simply states that a response shall be made "within 10 days from receipt of the request." In general, when a statute does not specifically provide for "business" days, calendar days apply. With respect to when the […]June 14, 2009
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Detailed guides on open meetings and open records, with sample letters for you to customize.June 11, 2024
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The dark side of ‘sunshining’ government data online
[…] portal proved a boon to corporations and the wealthy, who hired lawyers and predatory land agents to challenge titles, hunt for errors in documentation, exploit gaps in records, identify targets for bribery, and snap up property. An initiative that was intended to level the playing field for small landholders ended up penalizing them; bribery […]June 29, 2011
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Can A School District Bar The Public From School Closure Meetings?
April 21, 2022
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Leaks in the Age of Trump–The Coming Flood
[…] all previous presidents combined. He was more aggressive than most presidents in pursuing confidential information from journalists. His Justice Department secretly subpoenaed and seized phone and email records from more than 100 Associated Press reporters over the course of two months in 2012--in direct violation of Justice Department policies governing subpoenas of journalists and […]January 4, 2017
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Councilman is rude to speakers making public comments. What is our legal recourse?
[…] council’s own code of conduct, which are somewhat outside the scope of our expertise at this hotline. We can only answer general questions about open government, open records, and the First Amendment. We note that the Brown Act requires that the public be afforded the right to speak at meetings where the Brown Act […]September 18, 2020