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    CPRA

    The CPRA and privately owned utilities companies

    […] a sample request letter, at the First Amendment Coalition website at http://firstamendmentcoalition.org/category/resources/access-to-records/. Holme Roberts & Owen LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to the inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation.

    August 7, 2011

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    CPRA

    When government outsources program are documents public?

    […] by going to the website of their red light camera vendor, selecting the report from an on-screen menu of report types, then selecting the intersection to be covered by the report, and entering the beginning and ending dates of the period of interest (the "parameters"). The database program prepares the report immediately. I have […]

    October 10, 2011

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    CPRA

    How can I find out if a non-profit is cooking the books?

    […] from these departments are often excluded from public view due to the exemption.)    Bryan Cave 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.

    May 21, 2015

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    Blog

    California agencies have no business claiming copyright protection for public records

    […] other creative types in the private sector? Yes, but the federal Copyright Act also allows states to elect copyright protection. This is a big deal. Copyright protection for government records poses a real danger because copyright is in direct conflict with the public’s right of access, under state FOI laws, to government records.  The whole […]

    June 22, 2016

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    Is it legal to profit by selling information from public records?

    […] "services" such as mapping, notification alerts, etc. whenever an offender moves in or out of a certain area . AlertID is the service utilized by many local governments and is integrated into their registry websites, but AlertID also apparently offers these services directly to the public. Not surprisingly these companies almost always use scare […]

    September 17, 2013

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    Bagley-Keene Act Brown Act

    Are Community College Faculty Senate meetings covered by the Brown Act?

    […] put the various pieces together for you. Unfortunately, the most definitive answer I can give you may be "maybe." Community Colleges are state entities, rather than local governmental entities, and thus the open meeting law potentially applicable is the Bagley-Keene Act, Government Code sections 11120-11132. The Bagley-Keene Act applies to "state bodies," which defines […]

    January 30, 2012

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    CPRA

    Council-elect make decisions, but claim documents are not public

    […] agency; or entities that are legislative bodies of a local agency pursuant to subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 54952."Gov't Code section 6252(a). Section 54952(c) of the Government Code defines a "legislative body" as: (1) A board, commission, committee, or other multimember body that governs a private corporation, limited liability company, or other entity […]

    October 21, 2010

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    Brown Act

    Co-op non-profits

    […] a general rule, open meeting laws (such as the most commonly-applied, the Brown Act, which governs the public's access to meetings of local agencies), only apply to government agencies.  The only private entity subject to the Brown Act is a "board, commission, committee or other multimember body that governs a private corporation or entity […]

    June 14, 2009