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A&A: CPRA request won’t be fulfilled unless we show documents we’ve already received

Q:  One of my reporters put in a PRA request with a law enforcement agency. It has asked to see the documents we have obtained so that it can know what key words to search. I don’t think we should do that, but the office is saying we won’t get the documents we need unless we honor their request. Another reporter filed a PRA with the same law enforcement agency. She received some documents, but there are

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A&A: Using the CPRA to access list of alcoholic beverage licensees

Q: As a non-profit primarily focused on educating alcoholic beverage licensees about the dangers of drinking, we need to know how we can obtain the list of all alcoholic beverage licensees in California so that we can organize and carry out an educational campaign. We are wondering whether you could provide some insight as to whether business email addresses which are provided to the ABC-California by alcoholic beverage license applicants are subject to disclosure under the provisions of

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Knight Foundation gives $60 million to support First Amendment

Together with Columbia University, the Knight Foundation is launching a $60 million campaign to defend and promote the First Amendment using the law, research and education. The Knight Foundation believes that, with fewer print news outlets, more heft is needed to preserve free speech and free press in the age of fast-moving technology. (Courthouse News Service, May 17, 2016, by Deepti Hajela of the Associated Press) The grant will help fill the void allowing governments

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Secrecy reigns in U.S. courts

A Texas judge claims that secrecy is shrouding U.S. courts beginning with the establishment in 1978 of our first secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court. Then the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 walled off access to records of court orders for surveillance of citizen e-mails and cell phones. There is also evidence of unprecedented sealing of civil cases with flimsy justifications. (Just Security, May 6, 2016, by Stephen Wm. Smith) Denny Walsh

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A&A: Does an email search qualify as “data compilation” under CPRA?

Q: A local agency claims that collecting emails via a search term falls under the “data compilation” clause of CPRA 6253.9(b)(2) and therefore they can charge me to inspect them. Is the agency correct? A: The agency’s contention that the data compilation provision allowing fees for these tasks applies to its search for emails is, indeed, novel.  Looking at the plain text of Gov’t Code § 6253.9(b)(2), it is clear that such fees for the production

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