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    Blog

    Why The Fight For Court Access is So Important – Even When it Fails

    […] irony about the unlawful court closure on Oct. 2 is that the hearings in question were themselves about government transparency. Both hearings stemmed from a California Public Records Act lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Northern California against the Vallejo Police Department, alleging that the department failed to produce records relating to investigations into […]

    October 4, 2024

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    CPRA

    Can city business hide behind attorney/client privilege?

    […] that this council member cut him off in traffic, made a vulgar hand gesture and used obscene language while driving the city vehicle. I made a public records act request seeking a copy of this email and was informed that I could not get this email because the city attorney had been copied and […]

    July 23, 2013

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    Brown Act

    Model Letters

    […] to the receiver that they are legally mandated to do so. If this is request is being considered please have language that also addresses having it requested electronically if such a method is available as they do for the legislative body. I really am looking to have proper language that will provide documentation on […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Are Myths Killing the Newspaper Business?

    […] of Newspaper Editors. It took ASNE more than 10 years and lots of money to get that law. There is not a single state open meeting or records law anywhere in the country that was not shepherded through the statehouse by the media — usually local newspapers. Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart in 1976. […]

    February 24, 2010

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    CPRA Police Records

    Missing persons report and the CPRA

    I plan on submitting a public records request for a missing persons report that was filed with a police department. The individual filed as a missing person was found dead a day later. Is such a record public, when it could possibly be evidence in a murder investigation? Such a report is filed with […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Police Records

    Can A Request for A Code Enforcement Complaint Be Denied?

    […] has been after her to clean it up.  I called code enforcement to ask for a copy of the complaint and was told to submit a public records request, which I did. They rejected the request because it's an open case. Is that justified? The woman gave me a copy of the complaint, which […]

    January 26, 2018

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    CPRA

    Public official salaries and the CPRA

    I'd like to find information on executive salaries for public utility organizations (SMUD, LADWP, WAPA and NCPA).  Can you advise me if these are publicly available records and if so, what’s the best way to obtain them might be?

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Blanket Denial of CPRA Requests from Law Enforcement Agency

    I recently filed several California Public Records Act requests with a local police department. Some were fulfilled, some were blanket denied. I was hoping I could get some advice on where to go next to help further my reporting into the matter.

    May 16, 2018

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    CPRA

    CPRA request won’t be fulfilled unless we show documents we’ve already received

    […] officials’ private email or text accounts, rather than accounts belonging to the government. Unfortunately, an appellate court overturned the lower court’s ruling, finding that messages sent from private electronic devices are not subject to disclosure under the Public Records Act.  According to the California Supreme Court's website, the case has now been fully briefed (as of […]

    June 16, 2016