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  • Posts

    FAC Opposes Legislation that Would Weaken Police Transparency 

    […] (6/14/2023) San Francisco Chronicle: ‘Pretty staggering’: Thousands of California police officers could be stripped of their badges under new law (6/14/2023) CBS8 San Diego: CA law strips bad cops of their badges, now the commission doesn't want to share personnel files (5/25/2023) Coalition letter to legislate leader urging them to reject the budget trailer bill:

    June 15, 2023

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    CPRA

    Public Officials’ Personal Email

    […] the written request is denied, the agency is obligated to back its denial by citing an exemption in the PRA or other state or federal law allowing it to withhold the records you seek.  (Gov't code § 6255).  A sample PRA request letter can be found on the CFAC website at the following link: https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/cpra-primer/sample-cpra-request-letter/

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    How Do I Access Decades-Old 911 Audios?

    […] CPRA does not only mean words on a page, but includes "every other means of recording upon any tangible thing any form of communication or representation, including letters, words, pictures, sounds, or symbols, or combinations thereof, and any record thereby created, regardless of the manner in which the record has been stored." Gov’t Code […]

    September 24, 2021

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    FAC Urges California Supreme Court to Require Transparency in Clemency Proceedings

    […] clemency records under seal. Court records should not be sealed by default. And transparency should not as policy require legal intervention. Instead, FAC’s lawyers wrote in today’s letter to the court, the burden must remain on the party seeking secrecy, in this case Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office, to demonstrate why any proposed sealing would […]

    January 13, 2021

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    FAC Opposes Legislation That Would Harm Your Right to Know 

    […] to this anti-transparency proposal that, if adopted, would excuse the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training from crucial public records disclosure obligations. Read our coalition opposition letter sent to lawmakers. Join us in opposing this measure that would take California in the wrong direction. Note: Link will take you to the website for […]

    June 21, 2023

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    Brown Act

    How do we enforce the Brown Act?

    […] the board declared null and void, one must first, in a timely manner, sometimes within 30 days of the violation, demand in writing that the agency " cure and correct" the violations of law. A party who prevails in a Brown Act lawsuit may be entitled to an award of attorneys' fees and costs. […]

    December 22, 2011

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    CPRA

    Animal shelter won’t disclose contact info on local cat trapper

    […] "relating to the conduct of the public's business" is interpreted broadly, and only purely personal information is exempt, i.e., the shopping list phoned from home, or the letter to a public officer from a friend which is totally void of reference to governmental activities.  See Assembly Comm. on Statewide Information Policy, Appendix 1 to […]

    June 15, 2016

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Planning Commissions, Confidential Complaints, and the CPRA

    […] be to request records pertaining to any complaints made by this particular Planning Commissioner, during the period for which she has been on the Commission.  A sample letter requesting records can be found on CFAC's website, https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/cpra-primer/sample-cpra-request-letter/.  Within 10 days of receipt of your request, sec. 6253(c) requires the agency to "determine whether the […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Social Media

    Facebook comments deleted from Senator’s page

    […] Consider an analog-world analogy: if the official used his staff to produce an office newsletter that he used to communicate with his constituents, and that newsletter published letters to the editor, he would not be obliged to publish every letter he received. As the creator of the newsletter he would have editorial control over […]

    May 20, 2013