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Is gender of foster care staff public information?

[…] public officials or employees that is private or controversial, it was developed to protect the intimate details or personal and family life, not official business judgments and relationships. Bakersfield City School Dist. v. Sup. Ct., 118 Cal. App. 4th 1041, 1045 (2004); Braun v. City of Taft, 154 Cal. App. 3d 332, 343-44 (1984). Thus, when […]

August 13, 2014
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Personnel Files

[…] or trivial, and there is reasonable cause to believe the complaint is well founded, public employee privacy must give way to the public's right to know." ( Bakersfield City School District v. Superior Court of Kern County, 118 Cal. App. 4th 1041, 1045 (2004)). Also note that with respect to government employee's resumes, in […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA School Records

Accessing a public employee’s resume

[…] or trivial, and there is reasonable cause to believe the complaint is well founded, public employee privacy must give way to the public's right to know." ( Bakersfield City School District v. Superior Court of Kern County, 118 Cal. App. 4th 1041, 1045 (2004)). In the situation you describe, it sounds like the investigations […]

June 14, 2009
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Personal privacy exemption for public college dean

[…] that is private or controversial. However, this exemption -- which was developed to protect intimate details of personal and family life, not official business judgments and relationships, Bakersfield City School Dist. v. Superior Court, 118 Cal. App. 4th 1041, 1045 (2004) -- applies only to "personnel files ... the disclosure of which would constitute […]

October 17, 2013
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FOIA request California State Parks internal investigation

[…] they probably do not reveal any truly intimate details of personal and family life (vs. official business judgments and relationships) that this particular exemption was designed to protect. See, e.g., Bakersfield City School Dist. v. Sup. Ct., 118 Cal. App. 4th 1041, 1045 (2004); Braun v. City of Taft, 154 Cal. App. 3d 332, 343-44 (1984). Further, even if […]

June 1, 2016
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Is the list of employees taking voluntary buyouts a public document?

[…] or employees that is private or controversial. However, this exemption was developed to protect intimate details of personal and family life, not official business judgments and relationships. Bakersfield City School Dist. v. Superior Court, 118 Cal. App. 4th 1041, 1045 (2004). The California Supreme Court has held that the names and salaries of individual […]

August 27, 2010
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State college employees using work email for political campaigning

[…] controversial. Gov't Code § 6254(c). However, this exemption -- which was developed to protect intimate details of personal and family life, not official business judgments and relationships, Bakersfield City School Dist. v. Superior Court, 118 Cal. App. 4th 1041, 1045 (2004) -- applies only to "personnel files ... the disclosure of which would constitute […]

August 12, 2011
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Accessing university’s decision making on promotions and tenure

[…] favor of disclosure, and is only intended to protect truly intimate details of personal and family life, as opposed to official business judgments and relationships. See, e.g., Bakersfield City School Dist. v. Sup. Ct., 118 Cal. App. 4th 1041, 1045 (2004); Braun v. City of Taft, 154 Cal. App. 3d 332, 343-44 (1984). If […]

June 9, 2015
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Request For Public Employee W2 Forms Fulfilled, But Heavily Redacted. Are The Redactions Legal?

[…] identifiable public employees that is private or controversial. This exemption was created to protect intimate details of personal and family life, not official business judgments and relationships. Bakersfield City School Dist. v. Superior Court, 118 Cal. App. 4th 1041, 1045 (2004). We note the California Supreme Court has held that the personnel records exemption […]

April 26, 2022
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Are Citizen Bond Oversight Committee Applications Public Records?

[…] As one court has held, the exemption in § 6254(c) was created to protect intimate details of personal and family life, not official business judgments and relationships. Bakersfield City School Dist. v. Superior Court, 118 Cal. App. 4th 1041, 1045 (2004). Therefore, some information contained in applications is not exempt. In Eskaton Monterey Hospital […]

May 15, 2020