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A&A: Can I use the PRA to request lawmaker’s emails and calendars?

Q: Please tell me how I can go about submitting a PRA request for a lawmaker’s emails and calendar, and for the agendas of a legislative caucus. To whom do I submit my request? A: Statutes governing access to public records differ depending upon the person from whom you seek the records.  The Public Records Act only applies to records “prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state or local agency…”  Gov’t Code § 6252(e)(emphasis

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A&A: Can I access emails of city employees using personal emails for city business?

Q: Our newspaper made an public records request for ”all emails to and from city employees” regarding a new parking meter system the city is using.  Our intention is to see whether employees have written emails stating that the system is not working properly. In response, the city attorney exempted an unspecified number of emails citing a ’deliberative process’ exemption in CCC 6252(d), 6254(a) and (k) and 6255. He cited cases including Rogers v. Superior

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A&A: How can I get around the CPRA “catch-all” exemption?

Q: A recent CPRA request  to the  California Department of  Justice resulted in a partial denial of responsive records; they claimed the deliberative process exemption for the records not provided (citing Times Mirror). If a process is not related to something truly requiring secrecy, are there any options to pursue this information and what would be the appropriate response to their letter? A: For background purposes, Government Code section 6255(a) of the Public Records Act,

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CPRA Primer: Access to records

RESOURCES ACCESS TO RECORDS Accessing Public Records IN CALIFORNIA California Public Records Act Primer Note: To access the updated version of FAC’s CPRA Primer, please click here or see the “Download CPRA Primer” button below. Please note the rest of this page is under construction following the Jan. 1 2023 renumbering of the California Public Records Act. The CPRA is now located at Government Code sections 7920.000-7931.000. The California Law Revision Commission has published a table showing how previous

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Mayor’s appearance calendar

Mayor’s appearance calendar Q: A local activist says that the Mayor and City Attorney “have both sent me letters refusing to divulge the mayor’s calendar of scheduled May appearances as Mayor and/or his appointment book of meetings as Mayor for the past two months.” Is this legal under Prop 59? A: In 1991, the California Supreme Court ruled that something called the “deliberative process” exemption allowed the Governor to refuse to release copies of his

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