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Brown Act

Does the Brown Act apply to volunteer fire company

I am a member of a volunteer fire company and our tax status is a 501c4. Our tax return is part of the Public Records Act but is the rest of our records part of the same Act. We believe that we are not part of the Brown Act because we have none of […]

June 14, 2009
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FAC Urges Vallejo City Hall to Acknowledge Public Records Requests Can Be Made Anonymously

In a June 23 letter, the First Amendment Coalition urged the city of Vallejo to amend its online portal for requesting public records to make clear that a requester need not provide a name or other personal identifying information as a condition of making a request. Update: Vallejo City Attorney Veronica Nebb said the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
June 23, 2022
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CPRA

My CPRA request was denied due to “attorney-client privilege”

The purpose of the California Public Records Act (CPRA) is to increase freedom of information by providing access to information in the possession of public agencies. To implement this policy, Government Code section 6253, subdivision (a) provides all persons with the right to inspect any public record maintained by state or local agencies, subject […]

September 14, 2015
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1st Amendment unravels plans to hide Cosby transcript, police-shooting video

[…] But . . . but . . .the lawyers may not have fully taken into account the First Amendment, which provides a right of access to judicial records (and also judicial proceedings). Although it’s true that litigants, in settling a case, are generally free to agree between themselves that they won’t assert certain rights, […]
- Public Records
July 21, 2015
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FAC Urges UC Berkeley to Comply with Records Request Regarding Human Remains Found on Campus

FAC has called on the University of California, Berkeley, to comply with the California Public Records Act (CPRA) and respond to a CPRA request by Berkeley Scanner journalist Emilie Raguso. Raguso seeks emails to and from Tom Mucha, a Cal employee, regarding the skeleton found in an unoccupied building on campus in January 2023. […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
March 13, 2024
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Is it legal to profit by selling information from public records?

As a general matter, there are no restrictions on what a private entity may do with records and information that it collects from a public entity. If the private entity wants to repackage the information, and then charge for that information either by collecting fees directly from consumers or through advertising, there would not […]

September 17, 2013
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Newsgathering

Videotaping public reservoirs

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

No Video Record of Show-of-Hands Votes

February 23, 2018
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CPRA

Are letters to legislators public?

The Legislative Open Records Act (LORA) provides public access to records of the legislature, but, generally, LORA is not as broad as the Public Records Act, which provides access to records of executive and local agencies. LORA recognizes that access to legislative records is a "fundamental and necessary right of every citizen in this […]

July 14, 2014
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CPRA Police Records

Denied request for identities of homicide victims four years after the crime

I have a question about police records you may be able to help with. I'm trying to verify the identities of some homicide victims, four years after the crime. I've asked for the name and date of birth of the victims, but the department says they may not release the info. Do you know […]

November 16, 2014