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  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Multiple CPRA Requests For A Decades Old Homicide Have Been Denied Without Explanation

    I am seeking in formation from the California Department of Justice regarding a 1981 multiple homicide. I have reason to believe the two suspects in the homicides were not arrested because one of the suspects was a confidential informant at the time. I have asked for clarification or other information on the matter but […]

    April 28, 2022

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    How can copy fees vary from agency to agency?

    […] submitted a bid to be the janitorial service provider for the county court house.  After the bid was over I asked for the bid results, evaluation results and winning bidders proposal. I received a letter back stating that I had to pay $0.50 per page when I normally pay $0.10 per copy from government […]

    September 5, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    My CPRA request was denied due to “attorney-client privilege”

    The Chair of the Board of Directors for the Fire Protection District wrote a letter which was published in a local newspaper. In that letter he made public, for the first time, the existence of a report the District had received from a private legal firm. He also made public some of the contents […]

    September 14, 2015

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    City misses CPRA request deadlines “due to staff vacancies”?

    My friend and I first requested financial records for two affordable housing projects receiving government subsidies on August 19. The City responded on August 27 informing us that due to staff vacancies they could not fulfill our request, and that they would provide a status update by October 1. On September 4, we responded to the […]

    October 12, 2015

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Access to appointment calendars

    Can one use Proposition 59 to justify a public records request of the sheriff’s calendar?

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Informal Meetings and the Brown Act

    I understand that the Brown Act prohibits a majority of a Board of Supervisors from meeting together illegally.  However, can one supervisor discuss an issue with another two or more other supervisors on a personal, informal basis, one at a time?

    June 14, 2009

  • Latest News

    Press Release

    FAC Victory in “Reverse CPRA” Case: Court Orders Disclosure of Records Alleging Misconduct by Milpitas City Official

    […] of substance in tentative rulings. "We are grateful these records will finally be released, but they should have been made public more than a year ago, when newspapers first asked for them under the CPRA," said FAC Executive Director David Snyder. "The fact that it took so long for this information to become public […]

    May 3, 2018

  • Latest News

    Cases Press Release

    FAC & Reporters Committee file briefs in Apple v. Samsung secrecy appeal

    […] both Apple and Samsung. Also filed Monday: a media amicus brief prepared by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and submitted on behalf of the New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Gannett and others. Together, the two amicus briefs present essentially all the arguments that would have been made by […]

    October 17, 2012

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Agenda posted online

    Can the legislative body of a state-funded entity discontinue sending notice of standing meetings by reasoning that agendas/minutes are posted on its website? To me, it does not meet the requirement that the public's business be conducted in an open a manner as possible.

    June 14, 2009