Write a review of FAC to help us keep our Top Rated Nonprofit status!

Search Results

Showing 751 - 760 of 1525 results

Asked and Answered

CPRA

Does the California Public Records Act Allow Agencies to Extend Deadline for Retrieving Records from 14-Days to Months?

[…] agency responded promptly requesting a lengthy extension. Are they allowed to ask for so much time to gather records? When are they only allowed a 14-day extension and when can they claim they need more time? I did not push when they asked for more time because I was busy with other projects. Now […]

May 21, 2020
Asked and Answered

CPRA

Can CA Alcoholic Beverage Control withhold documents?

[…] have a lot of backstory and email exchanges. I also have a lot of experience through activism and advocacy regarding their policies and am asking relatively clear questions and requesting data I believe, beyond any doubt, that they have but are not giving me access to. I am looking to go the next step […]

September 15, 2014
Latest News

Blog

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

[…] or read in the government controlled media. These are people who realize they are getting a politically sanitized version of events or being mislead by official " news". They realize that the state media often "lies by omission", leaving out key facts which run counter to the "correct" point of view. At the same […]
- Free Expression
June 2, 2009
Asked and Answered

Brown Act School Records

Right to Videotape School Board Meetings

Yesterday, I videotaped a School District Board Meeting and I was under the understanding that citizens are allowed to videotape as specified under the Government Code Section 54954.3, the Brown Act. After the meeting, I was approached by two district personnel, one of them being the district superintendent. Both of them told me I […]

June 14, 2009
Pages

Contact Us

For general inquiries — for example, questions about membership or finding materials on this web site — please use the form below. For all legal questions, please use our Legal Hotline page.

June 12, 2024
Asked and Answered

CPRA

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

I was recently not selected for a position at my place of employment, a California State University. Two individuals were hired that appear to be less qualified than me. I sent a request for interview notes because the chair of the interview panel expressly told me that only the responses given in the interview […]

September 16, 2013
Asked and Answered

CPRA

Can’t access documents because the staff member in possession is on extended vacation

I requested e-mail records from a public agency months ago. I am still waiting for many of these records and have been informed that the person who has access to these records will be on vacation for at least another month. Does the government have the right to delay responding to my request for […]

October 5, 2011
Asked and Answered

The author of requested emails assigned to fulfill PRA request

I requested information regarding communications of someone who works directly for our County and also is on our City Council. The County Administrator gave her the PRA request and is allowing her to fulfill it herself. Is this legal? I requested emails to a certain person from her.

August 5, 2011
Asked and Answered

CPRA

How to requests public documents from San Francisco Airport

I've been having a really hard time underst anding how to send a freedom of information act requests to the San Francisco Airport. A web search gave me nothing, except for something about a "Sunshine Ordinance" though I can see that California has a Freedom of Information law in place. Can you help me […]

May 11, 2018
Asked and Answered

Brown Act

School Board Closed Sessions with Administrators

[…] Board meets in Closed Session and apparently regularly invites a "leadership team" of administrators into the Closed Session. The administrators are not necessarily there to answer specific questions that are on the agenda of the Closed Session, but to merely be there in case questions come up. I understand that board members who apparently […]

June 14, 2009