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    CPRA

    Does the California Public Records Act Allow Agencies to Extend Deadline for Retrieving Records from 14-Days to Months?

    […] extension. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation. No attorney-client relationship has been formed by way of this response.

    May 21, 2020

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    Police Records

    Police Department in New Jersey Won’t Release Report on a Family Member’s Death

    New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act provides that " government records shall be readily accessible for inspection, copying, or examination by the citizens of this State, with certain exceptions, for the protection of the public interest, and any limitations on the right of access … shall be construed in favor of the public’s right […]

    August 22, 2020

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    First Amendment

    What are the rules regarding free speech and highway signage?

    […] removing the sign. Id. Although these laws impact speech and the highly protected category of political speech  it seems likely that a court would find that the government interest in regulating the highways for safety and aesthetic reasons would be sufficient to justify any incidental impingement on speech, particularly given the exception made for […]

    October 17, 2013

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    To force the paparazzi to clean up their act, turn the cameras on them

    […] to the legal tools that already exist--principally, laws against assault, battery and invasion of privacy--while creating an unacceptable risk of infringing legitimate photojournalism or other Constitutionally protected activity. Anti-paparazzi laws, while viscerally appealing, are a bad idea. But that doesn't mean the people of Malibu (and other California cities contending with the same situation) […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Blog Cases

    FAC to California Court of Appeal: The Public Can’t See What No Longer Exists

    […] to the public’s ability to obtain records under the California Public Records Act: should a CPRA requester be required to get a court order—an injunction—to prevent the government from destroying records? The clear answer is "no." If the CPRA stands for anything, it is the idea that the government has a duty, at an […]

    July 26, 2017

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    CPRA

    Is all information about public employment tests exempt?

    […] I have taken for jobs at BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit). I request my score, value for each question, who wrote the exam, who was the subject matter expert, and who graded the exam. I think the California Public Record Act states that this information is exempt.  Is there some way to get selective information?

    July 29, 2011

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    Blog FAC News

    Attorney Judy Alexander Joins FAC as Special Access Litigation Counsel

    […] new litigation capacity," said Peter Scheer, FAC's executive director. "By filing selected lawsuits to overcome agencies’ denials of access, we hope to send a strong message to government bureaucracies," Scheer continued. "The message is: "You cannot disregard the public's and the media's open-government rights with impunity." In addition to Alexander, FAC contracts with Holme […]

    March 9, 2010

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    When a public official works remotely from a religious institution

    May a local water district, subject to the Brown Act, allowed a director to participate telephonically where the remote site (in this case Palmyra, NY) is a facility which is part of the Mormon Church.  In this case the remote site is the Visitors Center of Hill Cumorah, which displays religious symbols, shows films […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Newsgathering

    Accessing 911 Calls and Police Reports

    […] are relying.   A sample written request can be found at the following link: https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/cpra-primer/sample-cpra-request-letter/ The PRA exemption at issue for the records you seek is found at Government Code section 6254(f), which exempts from disclosure records of law enforcement complaints and investigations.   Although this section exempts the records themselves from disclosure, a police agency […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Blog

    Will mainstream media match Wikileaks’ technology for receiving leaked documents anonymously and securely? Not likely.

    […] of their communications with reporters, is an obvious benefit. Even more important is the media's desire to neutralize Wikileaks' advantage in the competition for access to sensitive government records. Wikileaks, on the strength of its promise of anonymity, has managed to insert itself as an intermediary between news sources and the news media, relegating […]

    May 14, 2011