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    CPRA

    Public Officials’ Personal Email

    Does a city council member's use of his/her personal email account to discuss city business make that account subject to Public Records Act Requests? If so, is there a threshold between a single or several incidental uses and the systematic use of the personal email for city business that would trigger the account's exposure […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Corporate transparency, long cherished as an essential feature of US capital markets, is giving way to the secrecy of “private equity” deals. Big mistake.

    […] buyers, professional investors insist on transparency so they can be sure not to overpay. But as owners, they favor a respite from the scrutiny of analysts and government. So-called "alternative investment" firms—private equity, venture capital and hedge funds—resist mightily any government regulation that would make them more transparent regarding the investments they make and […]

    June 2, 2009

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    CPRA School Records

    Student records

    […] Education Code section 48918. However, once a final decision has been made to expel a student, the fact of the expulsion and the reason for the decision must be disclosed in a public document. See Education Code section 48918(j) and (k). I have attached the text of this section below. You may make a […]

    June 14, 2009

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    First Amendment

    Passing out flyers in front of a public school

    […] v. City of Las Vegas, 333 F.3d 1092, 1099 (9th Cir. 2003) (internal quotation marks omitted). "Public fora have achieved a special status in our law; the government must bear an extraordinarily heavy burden to regulate speech in such locales." Grossman v. City of Portland, 33 F.3d 1200, 1204 (9th Cir.1995). In order to […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Back Talk

    […] us..... -rcastevet ---- Quite a rant there rcastevet...four entries. Yet, I have never heard of an attorney representing an anonymous client. In any court proceeding, all parties must be identified publicly, unless such identification results in a danger to them or others, in which case the identity is made known only to the judge […]

    June 3, 2009

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    CPRA

    Public official salaries and the CPRA

    The California Public Records Act exempts certain information from disclosure on the basis of personal privacy. (Govt. Code s. 6254(c)). Some public agencies have relied on this exemption to withhold salary information of its employees, or they disclose no more than an employee's salary range or a list of job titles and salaries, but […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    State Agency Test Results

    […] that would be included in a resume, curriculum vitae or job application to demonstrate a person's fitness, in terms of education, training or work experience, for a government job is not a matter of privacy.  Eskaton Monterey Hospital v. Myers, 134 Cal. App. 3d 788 (1982).  The Eskaton court reasoned that "information as to […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Newsgathering Police Records

    Accessing reports on police officer involved shooting

    […] should release the records in a redacted form. Gov't Code § 6253(a). Bryan Cave LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to First Amendment Coalition 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 16, 2013

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    First Amendment Protest Rights

    Each year police place greater limitations on my annual protest

    The issue of to what extent the government may limit a request for a protest permit requires a complicated an highly contextual analysis that is unfortunately beyond the scope of the services offered by this hotline. As a very general matter, the government can impose reasonable and content-neutral time, place and matter restrictions on […]

    October 18, 2013

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    CPRA

    City wants me to pay to see report on fire at my house

    […] unable to find any cases discussing the specific issue of whether a city or county ordinance qualifies as a "statute" for purposes of the California Public Record Act's copying costs provision, there is at least one case that states that an "ordinance is a local law which is adopted with all the legal formality […]

    November 24, 2009