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  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    List of applicants for a public entity’s general manager

    […] issue of what kind of information about government job applicants is public. You could make a request for the information you seek pursuant to the California Public Records Act, with the caveat that you may face objections such as the ones outlined below. The government agency might raise an argument under Wilson v. Superior […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Redaction of investigative report

    […] Brown Act that requires a government body such as the city council to meet for discussion regarding a particular topic. The Public Record Act governs which government records must be disclosed and which are exempt from disclosure.  Ordinarily, documents subject to the attorney-client privilege are exempt from public disclosure.  Cal. Ev. Code § 954.  The […]

    August 12, 2014

  • Posts

    CFAC sponsors bill to prevent agencies from using anti-SLAPP law to deter citizens' open-gov suits

    […] Amendment Coalition is sponsoring legislation to limit the risk assumed by those who resort to court to force local and state agencies to comply with the open records and open meetings laws. The bill, SB 786, has been introduced by State Senator Leland Yee. SB 786 is directed to lawsuits in which a government […]

    June 2, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Does Brown Act apply to nonprofit and government agency overlap?

    The Public Records Act, borrowing the definition from the Brown Act, applies only to nonprofit organizations that either: Were created by an official act of a legislative body or Shares a member with an agency's governing body and receives funds from that same agency. See Govt. Code sections 6252(b) and 54952(c), (d). There is […]

    May 30, 2013

  • Asked and Answered

    Court Records

    Guardian access to juvenile case files

    […] the state and all 4 are separated. One child is now a legal adult. The mother does not know how to get all the paperwork and court records she had years back while the case was open. She needs the case number and the reports in juvenile records. How does she acquire these court […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment

    Seeking Information On Probation Compliance Of Parolee Who Committed Murder

    […] and whether the office had had any contacts with him between his release from jail and the murder-suicide. He said that under California Penal Code 1203.7, probation records are property of the court so he wasn't sure what he could disclose. I said I wasn't requesting the records themselves, just information about probation's contacts […]

    December 11, 2018

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Court Employee Anonymity

    […] a justifiable interest."  Copley Press, 6 Cal. App. 4th at 113.  The public has a right of access to all these documents and the information in those records, unless an exemption applies. On the other hand, "drafts, memoranda, critical analyses of others' work, and all kinds of preliminary writings," which the Court of Appeal […]

    June 14, 2009

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    2007 CFAC Free Speech & Open Government Assembly

    […] for Communication, October 25 & 26. Beacon awards are given to individuals or organizations in California for their exemplary work in fighting to keep government meetings or records open to the public, and for supporting the First Amendment’s fundamental free speech and free press rights. Generally, the awards will be given for achievement in […]

    June 3, 2009