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A&A: Can I be charged for postage for CPRA requested documents?

Q: I made a PRA request and received a reply from the County Clerk asking for postage (I ask to have the documents e-mailed). Looking online, state agencies presumably charge for postage. I have made requests from other state agencies but I don’t think they have charged me postage for items sent. I know local government folks state they can’t charge for postage.  So, can I be charged for postage? [su_button url=”https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/legal-hotline” target=”blank” style=”flat” background=”#e4df06″ color=”#0b0707″ size=”5″ wide=”yes” center=”yes” radius=”0″

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A&A: Can fees be charged for existing electronic/digital records?

Q: The County’s Public Safety Group sent me an invoice in regards to my PRA request for copies of their three existing contracts with Cal Fire. These records already exist in an electronic/ digital format. There is no reason to charge me a fee for them to be delivered to me via email. They just have to be uploaded into the email. No other public agency has charged a fee for an existing document which

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A&A: Can City withhold information until it tells City Council members?

Q: This is two pronged:  I asked the City Clerk multiple times if they had heard from county elections officials if they had verified signatures turned in for a citizen’s ballot initiative. I was told repeatedly they had not yet heard. The next day, they sent me the document from the county showing the signatures had been verified. It was time stamped by the City Clerk shortly before 4 p.m.the previous day. In other words, the city clerk

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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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A&A: Can I be charged $6000 for staff time needed to find and redact requested records?

Q: My recent request for public records was granted. However, the agency wants to charge me about $6000 to supply the records because of the staff time it will supposedly take to compile them all from the various warehouses in which the paper records are stored. And they want to charge for the time spent reacting the forms. They claim that they are authorized to do this because the Business and Professions Code gives them the power to charge

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