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CPRA School Records

School refuses to explain why principal fired behind closed doors

Are a Public Agency's Private Sector Contractors' Emails Subject to the Public Records Act?

March 5, 2012
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MuckRock, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and the North Coast Journal Honored with FAC’s Free Speech and Open Government Award

[…] Times and Leah Nylen of Bloomberg; and nonprofit, collaborative news platform MuckRock. Following a single tip, Thadeus Greenson of the North Coast Journal obtained, through several public records requests, more than 2,000 pages of internal police reports and court filings to write "The Soeth Files," which details years of "questionable decisions and uses of […]
February 26, 2024
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Brown Act

Can A Trustee Mute Another Trustee’s Microphone During A Meeting Streaming On Zoom?

January 20, 2021
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First Amendment

Blog post results in threats of defamation

[…] attorney specializing in defamation law is the Media Law Resource Center, which can be reached at (212) 337-0200. Finally, you can also try reaching out to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties in the digital world, including defending the rights of bloggers. If they can’t help you directly, they […]

April 8, 2016
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Pultizer Prize-winning reporter describes quest for truth in Las Vegas construction deaths

[…] and their families," said Berzon. Berzon started to look more closely at the role of Nevada OSHA and federal OSHA with headquarters in San Francisco. Accessing public records, Berzon soon discovered that many of the citations issues by OSHA were withdrawn after a meeting with employers alone – no family members or union representatives […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
November 11, 2009
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First Amendment

Brown vetoes bill limiting cellphone searches by police

[…] SB 914, a bill sponsored by the First Amendment Coalition that would have required police to get a warrant before searching through the smart phones and other electronic devices of people they arrest. The bill would have overridden a recent California Supreme Court decision allowing warrantless searches of cellphones. Interpreting federal law, the Court […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 11, 2011
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Emails to officials

[…] laws that would mandate that a mayor or city manager actually read an incoming email.As to the second issue, the general rules regarding the destruction of city records are contained in Government Code section 34090 et seq, the text of which can be found at the link below. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/gov/34090-34093.html There may be other local […]

June 14, 2009
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Time to Bring California’s Open Meeting Law into the 21st Century
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Meetings
September 30, 2015
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A California Perspective on AG Alberto Gonzales’ Problems
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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First Amendment

Government has retaliated against me for publicly criticizing the Vets Administration.

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?

March 3, 2016