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    How to file a verified petition

    […] plaintiff who prevails in litigation filed pursuant to the Act.  Gov't Code § 6259(d). Bryan Cave LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation.

    April 18, 2016

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    Judge orders release of SF Ethics Comm’n docs, despite claim of attorney privilege

    […] privilege applied because the documents consisted of communications between his and the city attorney's offices. Plaintiff Allen Grossman, a San Francisco resident and long-time activist for open government, noted that Sunshine Ordinance Sec. 67.24(b)(1)(iii) establishes disclosability of city attorney's advice regarding city and state open-meetings and public-records laws and ethics codes. Though the Sunshine […]

    November 1, 2013

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    County Ignores My Requests For Public Records

    […] neighborhood. What CDA did was inflate the neighborhood average size, the part that is taxed, to make their project appear average. It took my California Public Records Act requests to expose some of their doing, but they are now refusing to provide any more. I have submitted requests to the County Administrator and Board […]

    August 7, 2020

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    School district denies request for annual audit

    […] scrutinizing the process leading to the selection of the winning proposal," such scrutinization can just as effectively take place after the negotiations are completed but before the government agency approves the contract. Michaelis, Montanari & Johnson v. Sup. Ct., 38 Cal. 4th 1065, 1073 (2006). While you may be able to distinguish the facts […]

    July 27, 2011

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    Court response time to CPRA

    What should be the typical response time on the day a request is received for a criminal complaint? The California Public Records Act says 10 days but upon written notice an additional 14 days if the request is voluminous ?6253(c) Does this time limit apply for requests sent by mail?I have typically received responses […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CFAC files suit in affirmative action case to defend researcher’s academic freedom and oppose State Bar’s claim that it is above the law of access

    […] implications for higher education. To complete the research, which has been the subject of many scholarly articles and intense academic interest, he needs access to a California government database. So why has the State Bar, which controls the database, denied Sander and his research team access to the records? Because Sander’s subject is affirmative […]

    June 3, 2009

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    CPRA

    Is gender of foster care staff public information?

    […] of the BRV test above (as counsel should have done in the first place). Bryan Cave LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation.

    August 13, 2014

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    New “drone memo” to be released to FAC . . . and other developments in FAC’s legal cases

    The US Justice Department has advised FAC that it plans to release a second redacted memo analyzing the legality of the government’s proposed use of force to kill al-Aulaqi, a US citizen who had joined Al Qaeda and taken on operational functions for Al-Qaeda’s  operations in Yemen. Al-Aulaqi was subsequently killed in a 2010 […]

    July 11, 2014

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    FAC Suit Against CalPERS Seeks Records on Controversial E Palo Alto Real Estate Investment

    FAC---Monday July 19---The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) today announced that it has sued CalPERS, the retirement system for California government workers, over access to records about the agency’s ill-fated investment in an East Palo Alto residential real estate development that has gone bust--at a loss to CalPERS of all of its $100 million stake […]

    July 20, 2010