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Email Correspondence Records

[…] records saved by the employee are kept in a privately maintained ".pst" file on the employees hard drive. How long must the city maintain email records, especially elected officials who discuss employee or departmental actions, concerns or opinions? I know the Mayor criticized my actions as an employee to the fire chief, and the […]

June 14, 2009
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Public Records Lawsuit Seeks Transparency at San José City Hall

[…] messages about city business to their government accounts. "Without public access to records, there’s no way for the taxpayers and the public to verify that public and elected officials are acting in the best interests of the public, and not the best interests of their friends, cronies and campaign contributors," said Karl Olson, attorney […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
February 3, 2022
Cases

Dhaliwal v. Komrosky

[…] the First Amendment, such as calling a board member a "homophobe" for objecting to a curriculum that mentioned Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, and who was assassinated while in office, or calling another board member a "Communist." Komrosky has demonstrated a consistent pattern of […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Meetings
December 21, 2023
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Brown Act

Does the Brown Act address how long a board member can be absent from meetings?

May 16, 2012
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When mayors evade disclosure rules by using personal email accounts for city business, it is democracy that suffers. We’ll know soon if the courts, like the public, have lost patience.

[…] on paper, in email accounts registered to a city or to a mayor or council member personally--are the essence of transparency. The public has lost patience with elected representatives who game the legal rules to avoid disclosure of information to which the public is entitled. We'll soon find out if the judiciary also has […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
February 6, 2014
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FAC sues Auburn for council members’ business emails sent from private email accounts. Suit also challenges email deletion policy.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
June 11, 2012
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FAC urges ‘NO’ vote on San Francisco’s Prop E
- Public Meetings
September 9, 2015
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Records involving peace officers

June 14, 2009
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Deliberative process and the public record

1) Are public record emails to and from an elected county supervisor and his aides and staffers off limits, as the county counsel never quoted a legal reference when denying my request for such, only writing my "request may seek records that reflect the deliberative process contributing to an executive or legislative decision, "It's […]

June 14, 2009
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Proposition

[…] Obama's aides to get him to surrender his Blackberry, on which Obama had relied to escape the bubble that descends on leading presidential contenders, not to mention elected presidents. I argued that the aides' concerns about legal and security constraints were overblown and urged Obama to keep the Blackberry---and to use it, while President, […]

June 3, 2009