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China resident responds to Commentary on China’s censorship of internet

[…] class (as they are now labeled) Chinese filling shopping malls are thoughtful, articulate people. People who are discouraged and often angered by the arbitrary power of their government and its officials, the pervasive corruption they experience in everyday life, by the mixture of bland facts, half truths, distortions and occasional outright lies they hear […]
- Free Expression
June 2, 2009
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FAC Sues DOJ Over Trump Administration’s Secret Collection of Journalist’s Records

The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) today sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to force the department to disclose records relating to the government’s seizure of confidential telephone and email records from New York Times reporter Ali Watkins. The suit, filed today in federal court in San Francisco under the Freedom of Information Act […]
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September 19, 2018
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Obama should just say ‘No’ to aides who, worried about FOIA, say he must give up beloved Blackberry

[…] degree of security. A further recommendation: He should promise to make public all his communications on the Blackberry going forward. Such a commitment would establish Obama’s open- government credentials while earning him considerable capital with the news media. Moreover, the contrast with Capitol Hill secrecy could be used to put pressure on Congress to […]

June 3, 2009
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Brown Act

School board offered settlement based on bad information; how can I set the record straight?

The Brown Act itself only governs the extent to which government meetings need be open and accessible to the public. It does not otherwise speak to the validity of governmental action. So the Brown Act itself does not provide any basis for overturning the decision on the basis of the error. But I think […]

February 20, 2012
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CPRA

City misses CPRA request deadlines “due to staff vacancies”?

My friend and I first requested financial records for two affordable housing projects receiving government subsidies on August 19. The City responded on August 27 informing us that due to staff vacancies they could not fulfill our request, and that they would provide a status update by October 1. On September 4, we responded to the […]

October 12, 2015
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CPRA

Using CPRA to learn rules governing Resort Improvement District #1

You are correct that Resort Improvement District No. 1 is a governmental agency subject to the California Public Records Act (the state law equivalent to the federal FOIA). RID1 was established in 1965 pursuant to Pub. Res. Code sections 13000-13233. The provisions of the Public Records Act are found at Govt Code sections 6250 […]

July 22, 2013
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CPRA

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

[…] city will not fulfill a request for documents made via email. They insist that I first fill out their request form. I have made email requests to other government entities for years and other than delays I have received my documents. Can the city legally refuse to fulfill my email request? Is there state code […]

August 13, 2015
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CPRA

Does the CPRA allow access to notes from interviews with job candidates?

[…] on this point. As for the deliberative process privilege, this privilege may allow nondisclosure of records revealing the deliberations of agency officials, or information relied upon by government officials in making decisions that they would not otherwise receive if the information were routinely disclosed. This privilege again requires a balancing to demonstrate "that on […]

September 16, 2013
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Brown Act

Individual Meetings for Review

Does the following constitute a violation of the Brown Act's prohibition on serial informal meetings? An architect of a controversial project in Palo Alto met individually with 4 of 5 members of the Architectural Review Board following a particularly negative public review. It seems his purpose was to get feedback on his designs and […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Closed Sessions of City Council Meetings

The Brown Act -- the California law that requires meetings of the legislative bodies of government agencies to hold their meetings in public -- provides that before holding a closed session, the body must identify, in an open and public meeting, the items to be discussed in closed session. If the information required to […]

June 14, 2009