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    CPRA

    School administrators and the CPRA

    Under the California Public Records Act, "any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public's business prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics," Govt. Code Section 6252(e), is "open to inspection at all times during the office hours of the state or […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Judge orders release of SF Ethics Comm’n docs, despite claim of attorney privilege

    […] to meet a burden of proof that the documents were exempt from disclosure under attorney-client confidentiality privilege provisions in the city Sunshine Ordinance and the state Public Records Act. St. Croix had argued that the privilege applied because the documents consisted of communications between his and the city attorney's offices. Plaintiff Allen Grossman, a […]

    November 1, 2013

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    Advocacy Press Release

    Victory for Transparency: CA Supreme Court Rejects Police Union Effort to Gut Landmark Police Transparency Law

    […] union’s last-minute effort to undermine the effectiveness of a new, landmark police transparency law, rejecting the union’s effort to make the law (SB 1421) apply only to records created after January 1, 2019. The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) led a coalition of media groups in opposing the union’s effort,filing papers on December 28urging the […]

    January 2, 2019

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    Blog Cases

    Big victory in CA Supreme Court case on public access to government data

    In a major victory for open government and data access, the California Supreme Court yesterday ruled that Orange County cannot restrict access to its electronic mapping data--a so-called "basemap." The Court decided unanimously that the county basemap is a public record under the Public Records Act, which means that it must be made available […]

    July 10, 2013

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    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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    Advocacy Blog

    Update on open-government legislative proposals in Sacramento

    […] freedom of information communities. GIS "basemap" data is used to create the base layer for all local computer mapping. The bill sought to exempt from the Public Records Act, which requires all government data to be available to the public, "metadata, listings of metadata and assembled model data". CFAC has filed suit to force […]

    June 6, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    City Attorney says legal analysis is a CPRA exemption

    […] by the California Supreme Court in Roberts v. City of Palmdale, 5 Cal. 4th 363 (1993). 1. Attorney-client privileged documents are exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Act, Govt Code section 6254(k) (incorporating the privileges from the Evidence Code). 2. Although the Brown Act generally provides that all documents distributed to a majority […]

    June 10, 2013

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    Blog Events

    It’s Sunshine Week. Here’s how to get involved.

    […] FIGHT FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION The coronavirus pandemic has made accessing public information more challenging than ever, with some governments refusing to even respond to requests for public records. Yet news organizations across the country continue to publish essential accountability journalism, breaking through barriers to information to keep their communities informed. Hear from journalists and […]

    March 15, 2021

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    Court Records First Amendment

    Can a Newspaper Be Held Liable For How it Described Court Documents in a Story?

    In California, the law provides protections to the media for accurately reporting on "official" documents and proceedings, such as court records, via the "fair report privilege," which is codified at Cal. Civ. Code § 47(d).  The privilege generally applies to publicly available government records, official government reports, and statements made by government officials, and […]

    October 30, 2020