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Public Officials’ Personal Email

[…] you seek. As you know, the PRA requires agencies to provide you with the documents requested, or notify you that your request has been denied, within 10 days. (Gov't Code § 6253). If the written request is denied, the agency is obligated to back its denial by citing an exemption in the PRA or […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Air Quality District Records

[…] law exempts them from disclosure. The PRA requires agencies to provide you with the documents requested, or notify you that your request has been denied, within 10 days. (Gov't Code § 6253). If the written request is denied, the agency is obligated to back its denial by citing an exemption in the PRA or […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Videotaped of open meeting and reproduction

[…] a request for copies of tapes made of 3 open hospital board meetings, held within 3 weeks of each other. I submitted the request well before 30 days had passed from the first meeting, and before the minutes had been transcribed or approved by the board (in fact, the minutes have not yet been […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Accessing Termination of Employment Records

[…] from disclosure. As you know, the PRA requires agencies to provide you with the documents requested, or notify you that your request has been denied, within 10 days. (Gov't Code § 6253). If the written request is denied, the agency is obligated to back its denial by citing an exemption in the PRA or […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

The board of supervisors is only accepting written comment before meetings amid COVID-19. Does that violate the Brown Act?

July 16, 2020
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FAC Supports SB 776 to Improve Police Transparency in California

[…] the officer's employer. The measure also has provisions that would encourage agencies to comply with the law: a $1,000 fine per day for each day beyond 30 days that disclosable records are not turned over to a requester, and the chance for prevailing parties in open-records lawsuits to seek higher damages, at an amount […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
August 5, 2020
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CPRA

Accessing DMV Files

[…] by state or local agencies. The PRA requires agencies to provide you with the documents requested, or notify you that your request has been denied, within 10 days. (Gov't Code § 6253). If the written request is denied, the agency is obligated to back its denial by citing an exemption in the PRA or […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Accessing complaints to public agencies

[…] the agency to withhold the record. The PRA requires agencies to provide the documents requested or notify the requester that the request has been denied within 10 days. Gov't Code § 6253.. If the written request is denied, the agency is obligated to back its denial by citing an exemption in the PRA or […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

“Briefings” on controversial project really serial meetings?

The planning commission was given six days to review a 117 page packet for a very controversial project for the gateway of our city, which has not been developed. The day before the commission hearing, the city manager held a series of "briefing" meetings with groups of the 2-3 planning commissioners at a time […]

August 18, 2010
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CPRA

State college employees using work email for political campaigning

[…] subject to disclosure, then he or she must cite the specific exemptions justifying nondisclosure, and how those exemptions apply to the specific situation. See Gov't Code § 6253(c): --each agency, "upon a request for a copy of records, shall, within 10 days from receipt of the request, determine whether the request, in whole or in […]

August 12, 2011