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    Obfuscating Mercy: How the California Supreme Court Finally Addressed Secretive Pardons

    […] file, often hundreds of pages long, to the Supreme Court. The file may contain the applicant’s prison records, a recommendation from the Board of Parole Hearings, and letters of support from the community.Related articles: Op-ed: Gov. Newsom Should Commit to Transparency in Clemency Process (David Snyder, Sacramento Bee) Gov. Jerry Brown's Pardon of Former […]

    September 17, 2021

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    FAC Joins Nationwide Coalition Urging Transparency and Access in Response to COVID-19

    Today the First Amendment Coalition joined the National Freedom of Information Coalition and 130 organizations nationwide in a letter to state, tribal and local public institutions raising concerns about transparency and access to meetings and records as these institutions respond to the coronavirus public-health crisis. Government bodies should not opportunistically take advantage of the […]

    March 20, 2020

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    First Amendment Press Rights

    FAC news: Prop 42 victory, amicus briefs on the Wrap, NCAA, fee waivers & more

    […] amicus brief urges the CA Supreme Court to review the case in order to clarify that the state’s "retraction statute," which limits the liability of publishers who correct factual mistakes, applies to digital publications as well as print publications. Thieriot v. The Wrap News, Inc. Enforcement of a CPRA request for emails of San […]

    June 17, 2014

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    SF Unified School District Records

    Can you please direct me to the correct California Public Records Act form I need to use to obtain records from the San Francisco Unified School District? Do I also need to submit a US FOIA request as well or is a CPRA request sufficient? Are there applicable administrative remedies that need to be […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA School Records

    Charter schools and the CPRA

    […] approved from past meetings. It has now been more than two weeks and I do not have the minutes, and they have not been added to the website. I would like to know if an attorney could write a letter for me to remind the school to publish these public documents and comply with the law.

    July 26, 2013

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    CPRA

    Agency claims my CPRA requests via email are “not public records act request”

    It should not matter that your request was made in an email versus a hard-copy letter. If your emails were clearly "requests" that "reasonably describe an identifiable record or records," then it seems that the agency is obligated to respond to those requests under the provisions outlined in the Public Records Act. Gov't Code […]

    March 30, 2012

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    CPRA

    CA Public Benefit Corporations and the CPRA

    […] growth issue for two years now and have just recently organized as a non-profit (CA Public Benefit Corp) and filed under IRS 501(c)(3) to obtain a Determination Letter.  Anyhow, I've spent numerous hours reading CA state websites re planning issues, AG Opinion letters, abbreviated court cases, etc., visiting law libraries and trying to get […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Public comments on water rates closed, item still on agenda

    […] you may seek to void an action taken at such meeting. The requirements for taking such an action require you to seek to have the agency " cure and correct" the action taken at the improperly held meeting, and then bring a lawsuit if they do not. The requirements are very specific, they have […]

    November 25, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Special meeting and the Brown Act

    […] procedure for seeking to void an action taken at such meeting.  The requirements for taking such an action require you to seek to have the agency " cure and correct" the action taken at the improperly held meeting, and then bring a lawsuit if they do not.  The requirements are very specific, they have […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    When should “anticipated litigation” be agendized?

    […] knowledge of this threat would not compromise the City’s ability to negotiate, wasn’t the City Council required to identify the source of the anticipated litigation and to provide the letter(s) from the IRS which raised the issue in the first place? When it was made public it was a complete surprise to the media and public.

    February 3, 2014