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  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA Police Records

    Police Denied My Request For An Incident Report

    If you made a Public Records Act request for the incident report, the police agency here should have cited a valid exemption that applies to the report that would justify its nondisclosure.  If the police have not cited any exemption, you might want to write back and press them to justify their withholding.  That […]

    January 4, 2020

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    Why Support FAC?

    Proposal would give a major police oversight agency a carve-out from California Public Records Act obligations.

    July 20, 2024

  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Latest News

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Obtaining Procedures Manual

    Government Code section 6254(f) of the Public Records Act contains an exemption for, among other things, the "security procedures" of any law enforcement agency, which would include the California Highway Patrol. It is not clear if the manual you want would be covered by this exemption.  In one case, the California Court of Appeal […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    Veteran First Amendment Lawyer Glen A. Smith Named FAC’s First Legal Fellow

    […] Legal Fellow. Smith comes to FAC with a deep and widely varied background in media litigation, including substantial experience advocating for public and press access to government records, defending journalists against subpoenas, and litigation and advice relating to defamation and privacy law. From 1988-1993, Smith served as Director of Litigation for the Los Angeles […]

    July 17, 2018

  • Latest News

    Blog

    Digital strip-search: Case of lost iPhone prototype shows the danger of using search warrant to seize journalists’ information

    […] be crippling, essentially bringing one's work to a complete halt for the duration of a police examination in which government agents have access, not only to business records, but also to one's most private files (medical and financial records, communications with family members, etc.). But for journalists, particularly investigative journalists, the loss would be […]

    April 30, 2010

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    Events

    Behind the Headlines: A Public Records Training Session for Journalists

    July 3, 2024