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  • Latest News

    Cases Press Release

    FAC Fights Unprecedented Effort by School District to Recover Nearly $500K From Records Requester

    The First Amendment Coalition and the American Civil Liberties Union on Monday submitted a friend-of-court brief arguing that an effort by the Newark Unified School District to recover nearly half a million dollars in attorneys’ fees from a woman who requested public records under the California Public Records Act is legally meritless, unprecedented, and […]

    February 6, 2018

  • Asked and Answered

    Bagley-Keene Act Brown Act CPRA

    Can finalists for city jobs be kept secret?

    Is their any state law allowing the city to keep the names of an advisory committee recommending finalists for a governmental job secret?  Our city manager came up with a secret panel to help select finalists for police chief and then refused to reveal their names until their work was done.

    March 18, 2010

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    CPRA

    Details of Preliminary Lawsuit Settlements

    […] MTA agreed to sell some surplus property to the City for a park project, on the condition that the city approve a supplemental use district allowing four new Clear Channel billboards to be erected on another MTA property alongside one of the city's freeways.  According to materials filed in support of the supplemental use […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Latest News

    Blog

    Thanks to AG’s threats to indict press in leak cases, reporters need not rely on 1st Amendment to protect sources. They can take the Fifth.

    […] stated publicly that he believes journalists may be prosecuted under federal espionage laws for publishing articles based on leaks of classified information. The comments, in an ABC News interview, were directed at the New York Times (for its disclosures about NSA’s warrantless eavesdropping) and the Washington Post (for stories about foreign countries’ assistance in […]

    June 2, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment

    Restricted from displaying candidate info at debate forum

    I brought flyers with information on a c andidate to a city hall  debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters. I was informed that I could not place the flyers upon the table where the candidates had their literature. Here's some context: this League of Women Voters chapter has attempted to curb any […]

    July 19, 2012

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    City Council Is Proposing to Order Police to “Resist” PRA Requests

    […] the First Amendment. The most recent proposal is to order the police to "resist" public records act requests for certain booking photos. The local journalist here is st anding pretty much alone. My interest is only concerned citizen. I just looking for the ammunition to be an involved citizen, and resist the order to resist.

    May 17, 2019

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    A Group of City Council Staffers Can Constitute a Serial Meeting, too

    […] members of the staff of the three councilmen who make up that committee. However, we were told that only one staff member could attend, because any more would make it a violation of the Brown Act. Is it correct that meetings of elected officials' staff members subject to the open meetings provisions of the act?

    July 13, 2010

  • Asked and Answered

    Police Records

    Can A Request for A Code Enforcement Complaint Be Denied?

    […] 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 I'm quoting in my story along with the name of the code […]

    January 26, 2018