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Behind the Headlines: How EdSource Put Sunshine on Policing in California Schools

[…] Know the law. If you don’t receive a determination within 10 days as the law requires, demand it. If needed, copy additional officials on the correspondence, including elected officials. I also suggest people track requests and responses by spreadsheet and challenge exemptions and redactions. Q: Some records requesters will push for disclosure of public […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
October 14, 2024
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Justice Roberts Saved the Supreme Court — Here’s What He Needs to Do Next

[…] judges struggling with hard issues. It is a spectacle that would shock (in the good sense of the word). Most Americans, when they think of public or elected officials, have in mind a legislative whorehouse in which special interest agendas and political expediency always prevail. Principles are irrelevant. Policies are irrelevant. And the public […]

July 11, 2012
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CPRA Request being stonewalled by their attorney

Our local fire district is a special independent district with the governing board elected by the populace. It is a 5 member board. There are no term limits and several board members have run unopposed for many years. This Board is supposed to provide oversight over the actions of the Fire Chief. Recently members […]

June 12, 2013
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The attacks in Paris are a clarifying moment for freedom of speech

[…] terrorists, allegedly directed by Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, have succeeded in deterring highly independent and reputable news organizations from publishing images that they ordinarily would have elected to publish. While Charlie Hebdo itself has not been silenced, other major media have engaged in, and continue to engage in, self-censorship. The events of Paris […]
- Free Expression
January 22, 2015
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Craigslist founder Craig Newmark joins FAC Advisory Board

March 1, 2016
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Judge plugs ‘private email’ loophole in CA public records law

[…] News, San Jose Mayor Chruck Reed explained: …Such disclosure rules covering private devices and networks can be justified and managed on a small scale involving a few dozen elected officials and their staffs. But he said the council appealed out of concern that applying those rules throughout a city organization of 5,500 full-time employees — […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
March 20, 2013
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Can I access attorney’s retainer agreement and invoices via the Public Records Act?

Our local fire district and its former chief, a "retired CalPERS annuitant," are involved in a judicial process contesting a pension amount owed due to "double dipping" The elected officials have held numerous closed sessions to discuss these legal matters. In an attempt to discover if the fire district is using taxpayer dollars to defend the […]

July 2, 2015
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The “deliberative process privilege” is dead or, at best, on life support

[…] of meetings and other government events. This refusal takes no small amount of chutzpah, since Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger regularly releases his calendars, as have all other statewide elected officials. Postmus is not alone. Other, mostly obscure local political figures, outside the media spotlight, have opted to withhold their calendars---which would show, among other things, […]
June 2, 2009
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Consumers blindsided by secret settlements in hi-tech patent lawsuits

December 23, 2012
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Journalism Leaders Ricardo Sandoval-Palos and Edward Wasserman Join FAC Board

July 9, 2020