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A&A: Can fees be charged for existing electronic/digital records?

Q: The County’s Public Safety Group sent me an invoice in regards to my PRA request for copies of their three existing contracts with Cal Fire. These records already exist in an electronic/ digital format. There is no reason to charge me a fee for them to be delivered to me via email. They just have to be uploaded into the email. No other public agency has charged a fee for an existing document which

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Freedom of information: Judge wants CIA to release records in electronic form

A former CIA employee seeking CIA records with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request found support from a federal district judge. The judge said that the CIA may be violating the law by claiming they could only meet the request by producing 19,000 pages of hard copy. The ex-employee Jeffrey Scudder claims that from his experience the agency could produce unclassified electronic documents to meet the request. (Courthouse News Service, March 17, 2014, by

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A&A: Agency won’t provide records in electronic format

Q: In response to our public records request for electronic data, public agencies have refused to release data in Excel format. They have instead given us pdfs or hard copies. Their reasons are vague, ranging from concerns we will manipulate the data to saying it’s not their policy to release data in that format. I recently received a raft of paper in the mail, clearly copies of spreadsheets. The county counsel said, “The District’s policy

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Requesting electronic trial court records

Requesting electronic trial court records Q: I am trying to access a criminal court’s calendar for a 3 month period of time in 2004. Is there is a different public records request when trying to access information from the courts? A: Pursuant to the California Rules of Court regarding public access to electronic trial court records, you can request bulk distribution of a California Superior Court’s electronic calendar, register of actions, and index for criminal

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