May 16, 2012
Is it legal to sell public records for profit?
Can a person request records under the CA Public Records Act and then make money off of the re-distribution of…
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May 16, 2012
City gone wild with continual Brown Act and CPRA violations
At last night’s city council meeting one city councilperson was censored by having his microphone turned off in the middle…
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May 15, 2012
Fees for “compiling” digital documents at UC?
I am trying to obtain public records at my university which are stored in electronic format. I have been told…
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May 15, 2012
How do I appeal the denial of a CPRA request?
While traveling in California, I had property stolen out of my hotel room and I filed a police report. When…
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May 10, 2012
City says it can’t fulfill CPRA request for a month
I filed a CPRA request with the city for information on a story that I’m reporting on my blog. I…
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April 13, 2012
CA Supreme Court denied my petition and I demand the right to know why
A petition for review to the CA Supreme Court is assigned to a legal staff who drafts a ”conference memorandum”…
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April 13, 2012
Should school superintendent’s goals be made in closed session?
Our City Council sets the City Manager’s goals in open session. The goals are public. The evaluation of the City…
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April 13, 2012
Agency charging $2k for redacting electronic records
I received a cost breakdown from a California State Agency, which proposes to charge me more than $2,000 to produce…
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April 13, 2012
Trying to gain access to police records on musician’s unresolved cause of death
I have been trying to get information regarding the death of a musician-songwriter for a few years now. He died…
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March 30, 2012
Agency claims my CPRA requests via email are “not public records act request”
In response to an emailed request for public records, the local agency responded that my “series of emails were not…