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A&A: How long are routine County surveillance records archived?

FAC May 6, 2016

Q: I have been fighting a speeding ticket for over the past year. After an initial failed CPRA request, I was able to retrieve dash-cam footage of the incident. However, upon review the County sent me footage from the wrong incident. The data that indicates the date and time of the footage was left out, perhaps intentionally. I am still attempting to retrieve the proper footage to pursue my case. Do you know how long

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A&A: How can my records request meet deadline if staff assigned is on vacation?

FAC September 11, 2015

  Q: I made a Public Records Request and received confirmation, but the attorney wrote that my request for is too complex to release now. I sent a reply and learned that the attorney left on vacation for a week. I don’t think there’s an I’m-on-vacation exception in the CPRA. What do I do now? A: The PRA sets forth certain clear requirements with respect to timing of disclosure, and agencies should not be permitted to simply disregard them.

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Short Takes: government email, historical police records, fee awards against requesters

Peter Scheer January 20, 2015

BY PETER SCHEER–Despite the dysfunction in Washington, Congress occasionally surprises with a modest piece of legislation that points the way for California and many other states. So it is with a 2014 Federal Records Act amendment which addresses this question: Suppose a federal employee, using his own personal text or email account, sends a message that is clearly about government business? The Federal Records Act amendment, at section 2911, says that the employee is now

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FAC leads amicus filing in case seeking access to records in hands of private firms that contract with government

Peter Scheer December 15, 2014

An open-government coalition led by FAC has filed an amicus brief in a California freedom-of-information case involving access to data of government contractors that the contractors are required, under their agreements wth local government, to create and maintain. In Flynn v. Los Angeles a PRA requester seeks information in databases about the towing and storing of cars parked illegally on LA streets. The towing and storing is handled by private firms under contracts with the

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EFF cites illegal destruction of records in NSA spying case

donal brown June 3, 2014

The Electronic Frontier Foundation accused the federal government in a court filing of destroying evidence of their surveillance programs while under order to preserve the records. The EFF said the government admitted to the destruction in court filings and is asking the U.S. District Court to assume the records would have shown that the government spied without warrants. (Bloomberg News, May 30, 2014, by Karen Gullo) The EFF issued this statement by Legal Director Cindy

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