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  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    City misses CPRA request deadlines “due to staff vacancies”?

    […] to the City via email, requesting that we be given access to the subject records or copies of these records by September 9, which is exactly 14 days from the date of the City's notice. As of today, September 11, we have not received a response from the City. We also submitted a CPRA […]

    October 12, 2015

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Can City withhold information until it tells City Council members?

    […] the record, either in writing (i.e., through email) or by phone, then technically the timeline for giving you the record would be a bit longer under § 6253(c).  It’s a fairly fine distinction, but in the future, if you are under deadline pressure and have reason to believe that a document you are seeking is in […]

    August 29, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Denied access to letters of complaint regarding Airbnb rentals

    […] I found out I could request the letter under the PRA. I did and they sent it. It was an anonymous letter. But it was dated four days after the motion was put online. So again I asked for the letters that were so alarming as to cause the Council to go straight to […]

    March 13, 2014

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA First Amendment Police Records

    Police say daily crime logs can’t be released to the public

    […] incidents that you saw cited in the log) would seem to take away from other important officer duties. Having been in a similar situation back in my reporting days, my recommendation would be that you and/or your news service send a friendly but strongly worded letter to the PIO, with a cc to the PIO’s supervisor […]

    June 17, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Accessing public employee timesheets

    I am seeking to obtain the time sheets (dates and hours worked) of a particular part-time city administrator. Are  time sheets public records that can be accessed to the extent that only the days worked are being requested, (NOT the days absent, days off, vacation/sick time)?

    August 4, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Is a school caretakers’s security camera subject to CPRA?

    […] of the Act or other law exempts them from disclosure. Furthermore, if requested, the agency must provide "disclosable public records in possession of the agency."  Gov't Code § 6253(c).  Whether or not the caretaker’s cameras are subject to the California Public Records Act ("PRA") will depend on whether the school has both actual and constructive possession of […]

    September 10, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Does the California Public Records Act Allow Agencies to Extend Deadline for Retrieving Records from 14-Days to Months?

    […] agencies the option of extending the 10-day deadline in which to respond to a particular request by an additional 14 days in "unusual circumstances." Gov’t Code § 6253(c). This provision provides that "unusual circumstances" means the following, but only to the extent reasonably necessary to the proper processing of the particular request: (1) The need […]

    May 21, 2020

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Double standard on publishing names of document requesters

    […] Upon request, an exact copy shall be provided unless impracticable to do so. (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 part, seeks copies of disclosable public records in the possession of the agency […]

    January 4, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA Police Records

    Denied records of homicide investigation

    […] therein; (4) The need to compile data, to write programming language or a computer program, or to construct a computer report to extract data." Gov't Code § 6253(c). From a practical perspective, it might be useful to follow up your initial request with a written follow-up letter setting out when you made the initial request […]

    December 23, 2011