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    CPRA

    Public employee salaries

    […] and Teamsters Local 856 v. Priceless, LLC which seemed to indicate that release of salaries connected with the names of employees is prohibited. How about requests for actual salaries by position and not connected with names. Is a public agency bound by CPRA to release such information? Is the $100,000 and above salary limit […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Judge Kozinski leads effort to curtail CA’s anti-SLAPP statute

    […] If that were to happen, plaintiffs in cases potentially subject to the anti-SLAPP law-- which covers suits implicating a defendant’s freedom of speech and right to petition government--would file suit in federal court, instead of state court (provided they can meet the requirements for federal jurisdiction). Since defendants have no right to remove a […]

    April 30, 2013

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    CPRA

    City deleting unread emails

    […] a mayor or city manager actually read an incoming email. As to the second issue, the general rules regarding the destruction of city records are contained in Government Code section 34090 et seq, the text of which can be found at the link below. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/gov/34090-34093.html There may be other local ordinances that may apply […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Are Depositions Public Records and Can We Publish Portions Of Them Legally?

    […] service. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner 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. No attorney-client relationship has been formed by way of this response.

    October 30, 2020

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    CPRA

    Can I see the city’s settlement agreement with police officers?

    Generally speaking, settlement agreements where one of the parties is a public agency are not exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Act. See Register Division of Freedom Newspapers v. County of Orange, 158 Cal. App. 3d 893, 909 (1984); Copley Press, Inc. v. Superior Court, 63 Cal. App. 4th 367, 376 (1998). There […]

    April 14, 2010

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    CPRA

    Charging for Electronic Records

    […] a deposit of hundreds of dollars and my agreement to pay them whatever they determine the actual cost to be.  When you consider that more and more government agencies, like businesses, are going paperless, this will become a major problem unless it's already been addressed in law. As I have had explained to me, […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CFAC and MAPLight sue for public access to state’s legislative database

    […] the legislative process by linking campaign contributions to specific legislative actions. This will prove embarrassing to legislators. CFAC now has three test cases pending involving access to government-controlled databases. In addition to this one, we have sued Santa Clara County for access to its real estate parcel map database (for use in digital mapping […]

    June 3, 2009

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    CPRA

    Economic Interest Disclosure Statements

    […] to file a lawsuit to get a response and then get some of what you are asking for, you should be entitled to your attorneys fees under   Government Code section 6259, which requires  that "he court shall award court costs and reasonable attorneys fees to the plaintiff should the plaintiff prevail in litigation filed pursuant to this […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Time Frame to Respond to Record Requests

    It might be useful to cont act the agency and point out the provision of the Public Records Act that specifies that agencies "upon a request for a copy of records, shall, within 10 days from receipt of the request, determine whether the request, in hole or in part, seeks copies of disclosable public […]

    June 14, 2009