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    Brown Act

    Inaccurate agenda information at County Board meeting

    Is it a Brown Act violation to intentionally provide false information on the agenda, agenda description, or supporting documents provided with the agenda for a County Board meeting?

    April 15, 2016

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    Brown Act

    Community College Senates, the Brown Act, and Secret Ballots

    I am a member of a College Academic Senate, a body of 15 elected faculty members representing the faculty at large and governed by open meeting regulations, including the Brown Act. The Senate violated the Brown Act by conducting a secret ballot and a group of faculty brought a petition for a referendum vote by […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Obtains Clemency Records in 6 California Cases After Challenging Secret Docket

    […] clemency cases — records FAC is now making public. FAC obtained the records after securing a series of rulings from the California Supreme Court rejecting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts to maintain secrecy of files to seek clemency for twice-convicted felons. Despite the rulings, the governor’s office delayed the release of these records, twice asking […]

    December 23, 2019

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    Court Records

    Is It Legal to Publish Personal Information Found in Court Documents?

    This is a question about publishing in formation found in documents from the Family Division of Superior Court regarding a divorce. Is it legal for us to mention the divorce in our article? Also, is it legal for us to publish the home address of a person in connection with our investigative reporting? We […]

    April 21, 2022

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    Advocacy Press Release

    Victory for Transparency: CA Supreme Court Rejects Police Union Effort to Gut Landmark Police Transparency Law

    In a significant victory for government transparency and accountability, the California Supreme Court today denied a police union’s last-minute effort to undermine the effectiveness of a new, landmark police transparency law, rejecting the union’s effort to make the law (SB 1421) apply only to records created after January 1, 2019. The First Amendment Coalition […]

    January 2, 2019

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    Blog Cases

    Score one big victory for access to government data

    […] to identifiable individuals. The importance of Sander & FAC v. State Bar can't be overstated: By reviving, and reconceptualizing, a common law right of access, the decision creates a new access tool to be used when the usual tools--FOIA laws, constitutional claims, etc.--aren't available. The Court's analysis of the privacy issue should go a long way […]

    December 20, 2013

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    County Ignores My Requests For Public Records

    I have had a long-running battle with the county's Community Development Agency on them altering Tax Assessor real estate records in order to approve an out-of-proportion large new house construction. CDA rules dictate new houses have to be average to the neighborhood. What CDA did was inflate the neighborhood average size, the part that […]

    August 7, 2020

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    CPRA

    City study taken off website after one day

    An historic inventory and study that the city paid for was put on the city's website for only a day and then taken off. I've asked city staff to provide me with a copy and was told that it's an administrative draft and they're not for public view.

    March 23, 2010

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    Blog

    Anonymous speech, although constitutionally protected, is mostly digital graffiti

    […] take responsibility for what one writes. The promiscuous use of anonymity breeds distrust. Readers react to anonymous online postings with the same skepticism that they have for newspaper articles that rely unnecessarily on unnamed sources. They wonder if the anonymous blogger is a paid shill, or has some other conflict of interest, just as […]

    June 3, 2009