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    CPRA Police Records

    Accessing county’s payments to a doctor now under arrest for molestation

    […] 6255(b). There is also no requirement that you provide your name, address, or reason for the request. Gov’t Code § 6257.5. You can find a sample request letter, at the First Amendment Coalition website at http://firstamendmentcoalition.org/category/resources/access-to-records/. I’m not certain if they will have records going all the way back to the 1980’s, but they’ll […]

    November 12, 2011

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    Bagley-Keene Act Brown Act

    Juvenile Justice Commissions and the Brown Act

    […] of the minors) and other information protected by law.  And, under California Penal Code § 6027 and the Bagley-Keene Act itself (in section 11126 (c)(12)), Board of Corrections studies on crime, including penology, may be reported in closed sessions.  However, this does not appear to relate to the activities of the Juvenile Justice Commissions […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Police Records

    Trouble obtaining arrest records and mugshots

    […] or security files compiled by any other state or local police agency, or any investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local agency for correctional, law enforcement, or licensing purposes"), but it expressly provides that "state and local law enforcement agencies shall make public" the following information (unless doing so would […]

    October 28, 2011

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    CPRA

    CPRA request filled, but witnesses names were redacted

    […] information or suspects by not). I went through the Records Supervisor, and I also contacted the City Attorney for a meeting but was denied. The conclusion was a letter from the City Attorney advising me that all the necessary information/reasons was relayed to me four months ago during a "phone conversation" with the Records Supervisor […]

    March 31, 2015

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    US Supreme Court ‘government speech’ rulings should curb government misuse of anti-SLAPP laws

    […] petition or free speech"  since government speech, the US Supreme Court has made clear, does not implicate first amendment rights. Anti-SLAPP laws are due for a mid-course correction that could come as soon as the California Supreme Court’s decision in the Park case. This will be a welcome development. Although the US Supreme Court’s […]

    December 22, 2015

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    CPRA

    Can I appeal a records request denial from State Medical Board?

    […] plaintiff who prevails in litigation filed pursuant to the Act.Gov't Code § 6259(d). You can find more information about the Public Records Act, including a sample request letter, at the First Amendment Coalition web site at http://firstamendmentcoalition.org/category/resources/access-to-records/. You may be able to find an attorney to assist you through the First Amendment Coalition's Lawyer's […]

    August 22, 2011

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    CPRA

    Can an agency’s CPRA defense go beyond the exemptions in the initial denial?

    […] once a final determination is made to withhold certain records, is a public agency limited to defending that decision based on the exemption(s) claimed in the determination letter? Are public agencies allowed to raise additional exemptions to defend a subsequent lawsuit? Thank you very much for reading this question and for any help you […]

    September 16, 2010

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    CPRA

    A Can the city legally refuse to fulfill my request unless I use their form?

    […] that is not the case, or if you are opposed to doing so, the City cannot require you to.  You might want to send a friendly follow-up letter to the City, reminding them of the time limits within which they are required to respond to your request, and that attorneys’ fees are available should […]

    August 13, 2015

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    Maybe summoning the press before Parliament isn’t such a bad idea

    […] contractor, Edward Snowden. Press advocates weren’t pleased. Carl Bernstein, the Watergate-era star who’s on the Mount Rushmore of 20th century media heroes, certainly wasn’t. In an open letter to Rusbridger, Bernstein objected to Parliament’s "hauling in journalists for questioning and trying to intimidate them," and said the editor’s appearance before a House of Commons […]

    December 18, 2013