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    CPRA

    How to I get city to admit to under-reporting employee compensation?

    […] employees should generally be public.International Federation of Processional Engineers v. Superior Court, 42 Cal. 4th 319, 331 ("he 'broadly based and widely accepted community norm' applicable to government employee salary information is public disclosure"). However, it sounds like you may have obtained the information you requested and are instead considering what action you might […]

    October 22, 2010

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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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    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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    The Powerful anti-SOPA protests show why corporations, too, need First Amendment rights

    […] they should have, at most, a second-rate version of the free speech protections for individuals), should realize that only the First Amendment stands in the way of governmental punishment--legislative, regulatory or otherwise--against Google and other Fifth Estate corporations for their inciting of public opinion against SOPA-type legislation. Think of how many members of Congress, […]

    January 20, 2012

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    Cases

    Amici Briefs Digest – Sept. 2018

    […] Authored Amici ACLU 9th Circuit Appeal. On August 3, we filed an amicus brief in support of the ACLU of Northern California’s appeal of an adverse Privacy Act ruling against their clients, two editors of the website antiwar.com. Our amicus brief argues, in essence, that the lower court’s ruling would open the door to […]

    September 20, 2018

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    Former FAC Executive Director Peter Scheer Awarded Society of Professional Journalists Career Achievement Prize

    […] in which FAC brought a number of groundbreaking cases to preserve and expand the public’s right to know. His work led to the disclosure of countless once-secret government records, including the management fees paid by CALPERS, California’s public-employee retirement system, to private equity and hedge funds; memos by the United States Department of Justice […]

    February 22, 2017

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    CPRA Police Records

    Obtaining investigative files

    […] unlikely that the police agency will release, or allow you to see, the surveillance video they have confiscated in connection with their investigation about the fatal shooting.California Government Code section 6254 of the California Public Records Act exempts certain categories of public records from disclosure, including certain law enforcement information. Specifically, California Government Code […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Are Voter Information and Other Records Requests Public Records?

    […] for or against any initiative or referendum measure for which legal publication is made, and to any person for election, scholarly, journalistic, or political purposes, or for governmental purposes, as determined by the Secretary of State."  Govt. Code Section 2194(a)(3).  Section 2188 of the Government Code sets forth the requirements for applications to obtain […]

    June 14, 2009