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CPRA

How to Request Information Stored in a Database?

How does the California Public Records Act handle information stored in a database rather than a specific record (e.g. an existing, stand-alone document)? For example, if I'm looking for historical financial information on a public works project at my city, the data might be in a database and would require city staff to run […]

March 11, 2020
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The Tyranny of the Minority: A Post-Charlottesville Theory of the First Amendment

[…] do so on such a broad range of issues, from climate change (which more than three-quarters of American public believe is real, but which the Trump administration questions the existence of) to the need for Trump’s border wall. But in both a "real world" and a legal sense, this feeling is wrong: neo-Nazism is […]
- Free Expression
February 6, 2018
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Justice Roberts Saved the Supreme Court — Here’s What He Needs to Do Next

[…] can the Court do to shore up its legitimacy in a world in which the Glenn Becks and Keith Olbermanns are in ascendancy? Answer: It can, finally, open its doors to the public, permitting real-time video transmission, via TV and the internet, of the Court's proceedings. Although some of the Justices apparently fear that […]

July 11, 2012
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Brown Act

I’ve Filed A Brown Act Violation Cure or Correct Letter. What Is My Next Step If They Fail to Comply?

I have served a Brown Act Violation Cure or Correct/Cease and Desist Letter to a local city agency in California. I was wondering which would be the best next step if they do not comply. File a lawsuit? Contact the DA? I quoted an opinion from the CA Attorney General in the document which […]

April 21, 2022
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Court Records CPRA Newsgathering

Destruction of Council Office Files

[…] an outgoing City Councilmember (defeated in the latest election cycle) purged his/her Council office files of virtually all documents (hard copy and computer files) prior to the new Councilmember taking office. Our city has a document destruction policy which it follows for other city departments (including agendized notice, documents listed, Council vote to authorize) […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

City says it can’t fulfill CPRA request for a month

[…] purchased, but the aforementioned payments don’t show up on the Treasurer’s report. My CPRA asked for documents supporting the account used that those payments came out of, and I asked for documents matching payments/accounts where they were listed as an expenditure? Just like the city of Bel, the payments aren’t matching the reports. Now […]

May 10, 2012
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CPRA

Are a Public Agency’s Private Sector Contrators’ Emails Subject to the Public Records Act?

Are emails conducting public business done by private contractors for a public agency subject to the Public Records Act? The contractors are hired to do various element of Bond Program Management and act in a function that is very much like or identical to in house staff.

May 14, 2018
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CPRA

County Refusing to Share Mold Report they Say Requires Us to Vacate. How Can We Access that Report?

I am on the board of a nonprofit preschool in a county-owned building and we have just learned that our lease expired nearly two decades ago. This is an old building, but we have been declared safe by the company we hired to do our mold report. The county is refusing to show us […]

April 21, 2022
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SacBee calls for more transparency in compensation agreements with public employee unions

[…] bargaining process, including negotiations, are open to the public (though government officials may discuss strategy for labor negotiations in closed session). Minnesota, Florida, Kansas and Tennessee are examples. California is at the opposite extreme. The state's Brown Act not only allows negotiations about salaries and benefits to be conducted behind closed doors, it allows […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
June 2, 2009
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CPRA

Using Public Records Act to find a school executives’ salaries

I am a student looking to improve my underst anding of executive compensation at my school and other schools in our region. When I contact the other schools, I cannot obtain hard information. The school administrations simply ignore my emails. I can usually get access to salary schedules, which are a framework for determining […]

July 19, 2012