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Letter to City of Seaside Regarding Disclosure of Claim to Press

Today FAC sent this letter to the City Attorney of Seaside notifying her that a claim made under the Government Claims Act is not exempt from disclosure under the California Public Records Act. The City Attorney previously denied Monterey County Now’s request to see the claim.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 22, 2024
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First Amendment

Can Home Owners’ Association Prohibit Political Signage?

I live in a large community governed by a Home Owners’ Association (HOA). It recently passed a regulation that restricts political signs to 6 days prior to an election and 15 days after. This violates the recent Supreme Court ruling in Reed vs Gilbert, but it is unclear if this applies to an HOA. […]

January 19, 2021
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CPRA

Should I be able to get meta data of emails and calendars under the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance or Public Records Act?

I have anonymously requested from various San Francisco agencies, under the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance and California Public Records Act, full email and calendar records, specifically in the original electronic format the city agencies hold them. While some agencies do indeed produce their emails/calendar entries in the native electronic formats like .msg, .eml, .ics, […]

April 1, 2021
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Brown Act

City Council disbursed funds without allowing comment by groups they shortchanged

The city council was previously instructed to fairly distribute funds to all domestic violence shelters in L.A. Members decided to give the majority of the funds to just two of the thirteen shelters and wouldn't take comments from the 11 shelters that were shortchanged. Our agency in fact serves more people than the […]

February 15, 2012
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CPRA Police Records

Is a coroner’s report a public document?

It's my understanding that coroners' reports are public documents. However, I need to know chapter and verse what parts are or are not public so I can prove my case to the coroner. Where does it say they are open? What law? What court decision?

October 12, 2010
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CPRA Police Records

Police deny journalist’s request for suicide report

[…] freelance journalist, and I’ve got a few question regarding a recent records request I filed asking to view police reports, correspondence, etc., related to a suicide investigation. The case is closed, but the request was denied anyway. The denial letter says that even when a police investigation is closed, the agency doesn’t have to […]

April 2, 2010
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CPRA

Fee for email copies same as paper copies?

[…] administrator responded stating cost of 10 cents per page plus postage needs to be paid before I can receive file copy. I requested to have it sent by email instead to avoid fee, but DFEH insist charging cost per page even if sent by email. I supplied a lot of copies to DFEH during […]

March 18, 2010
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CPRA School Records

Employment documents of officials

Can I request under the Public Records Act the resume and application for employment of a school district Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent. I have an interest only in the prior employment history and will assume the private data (address etc). will be blocked out. My interpretation of 6254(c) is that prior work history is […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

CPS (Child Protection Services) records

I would like to gather the records from CPS (Child Protection Services). They said they can only get them from a court order. As I just want them for my records, where can I find links to get these copies, and/or how do I use 'Freedom of Information Act' to get these?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA School Records

Suspension and Expulsion Records

Can I request the suspension and expulsion records for a school district for, say the previous three years? I do not wish to obtain any personal information ("directory information") on the student, but rather to compare suspension and expulsion records between students.

June 14, 2009