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  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Can the City Council ban non-disruptive clapping by audience members?

    […] clapping at a City Council Meeting. I’m referring to clapping that is not substantially disruptive. The City Council has started to interpret a clause of the Policies and Procedures Manual (Section 4.4 Disruptive Conduct) to disallow clapping of any sort after a Public Forum speaker has spoken to a subject. The public was advised […]

    April 14, 2015

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    Can someone be arrested for speaking too long at a public meeting?

    […] activist was arrested at a city council meeting for exceeding the time limit. It’s very loosely enforced by the mayor who allows some people to speak longer and others not to. The decision to target the activist was made earlier by the city attorney who told the police officer the next time this particular […]

    September 11, 2014

  • Latest News

    Blog

    Shame on Inglewood. Using copyright as a muzzle, the city files suit to censor a local critic

    […] critics, in hopes of unplugging his unflattering videos, was an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars? This is America, not Iran. Inglewood’s citizens are free to criticize government-- openly, loudly, even offensively. (This is sometimes also referred to as "politics.") Teixeira was exercising his birthright of US citizenship, the most fundamental of rights in a […]

    May 29, 2015

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    CPRA

    Government agency refusal of email records

    I was refused access to government emails and correspondence because the records were determined to be exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Act (recognized under the public interest balancing exemption provided by Government Code section 6255). Does this also refuse my right to access the time and date of the email correspondence?

    April 12, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA Police Records

    Are police dashboard-cam videos exempt from the CPRA?

    I am writing to see if there is any California case law on the release of dash cam videos and whether they are public record. I've been covering the case of a police officer accused of committing assault on a juvenile under the color of authority . The officer's defense was that he was singled […]

    March 18, 2015

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    How do I challenge the results of a public records act request?

    […] pertaining to enrollment statistics for a subset of their total population. We have reason so believe that the information they have provided is inaccurate. One indicator, for example, is that they have provided wildly varying data depending upon the forum in which they are presenting the data. Is there a way to challenge what […]

    February 10, 2017

  • Latest News

    Blog

    Woodward’s “leaked” Aghanistan report was declassified. How could that happen without Obama’s OK?

    […] given an advance look at a Woodward blockbuster so they can have a chance to alert him and Post editors to information, not necessarily essential to the news story, whose revelation could compromise intelligence "sources and methods" or otherwise harm bona fide national security interests. And maybe that's all that happened in this case. […]

    September 23, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Newsgathering

    What Are the Rights and Restrictions of Photo-Journalists Covering Wildfires?

    Our newspaper's staff photographer took photos/video of of flames engulfing a home during a massive fire in Northern California. Some of the photos were from a property that a nearby resident told him it would be okay to be on. Some were from the property of the home that was burning. The residents of […]

    November 13, 2018

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Urges California Supreme Court to Require Transparency in Clemency Proceedings

    […] require legal intervention. Instead, FAC’s lawyers wrote in today’s letter to the court, the burden must remain on the party seeking secrecy, in this case Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office, to demonstrate why any proposed sealing would be permissible. "The burden should not be placed on the public to first decipher the clemency request from […]

    January 13, 2021