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First Amendment Newsgathering

City Won’t Add Us to E-mail List

The city's communication offices refuses to add us to their official media e-mail list, that sends information and notices about events the mayor will attend or news conferences. The office also purposely refuses to answer our calls and e-mails, based on our legitimate news coverage. What recourse do we have to at least […]

February 8, 2018
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Brown Act

How can I stop city from violating Brown Act during budget meetings?

The city is having a budget meeting. The printed budget is over 500 pages and is divided into department sections. The Mayor prohibits public comment by department, instead he only permits public comment at the end of each day's meetings, and then the public is limited to three minutes. I believe this is a […]

November 14, 2014
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Brown Act First Amendment

School board changed public comments without notice

[…] democratic process of first come first to speak. The "grouping" process controls whether controversial subjects will be addressed during the first hour or at 11pm or later. By grouping they have essentially eliminated the opportunity for individuals to address them on their preferred topic. The public comments format was changed without changing board policy […]

March 30, 2010
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Brown Act

Does Brown Act allow School District, City to negotiate millions in fees in closed session?

[…] with a third party home/commercial developer secret behind closed session when such fees are derived on the construction of homes and commercial property that are not owned by the district or subject to purchase or sale by the district? Also, can the district Board meet in closed session with City staff under closed session […]

November 25, 2015
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CPRA

CPR request denied because it wasn’t submitted on letterhead

My request request for mugshot demographics data was denied by the California Department of Corrections. I sent specific data parameters for this information along with my name address and telephone number and received a telephone call from someone in the state archives denying my request. I was told the request was denied because it was not submitted […]

February 12, 2017
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CPRA

Can I be charged $6000 for staff time needed to find and redact requested records?

[…] Business and Professions Code gives them the power to charge the actual costs of creating the records. Can they do that? If they won't relent on the redaction costs, can I get around this by exercising my right to inspect the records in person for free? January would be a nice time to visit California.

March 2, 2016
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CPRA

Denied access to letters of complaint regarding Airbnb rentals

[…] issue – to stakeholders, press, each other, etc. They have not complied. I know for a fact other correspondence exists because some emails were forwarded to me by stakeholders. Where this gets tricky is that the Neighborhood Council member who put forth the motion works part time in a City Councilman's office and his […]

March 13, 2014
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CPRA

Records request denied due to “deliberative process privilege”

My city is claiming "deliberative process privilege" in redacting the planning director appointment calendar. I'm wondering if there have been any successful challenges to the deliberative process privilege since Schwarzenegger's refusal to turn over appt calendars for two aides citing this privilege?

June 6, 2013
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Brown Act

Teacher terminated after closed session

[…] not receive 24 hours notice about the meeting but was asked if she wanted to speak for five minutes on her behalf when she happened to walk by the meeting. The board then held a closed session and decided to terminate her. They had been "investigating her" for a while, so shouldn't she have […]

October 20, 2011
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Bagley-Keene Act Brown Act CPRA

Can finalists for city jobs be kept secret?

Is their any state law allowing the city to keep the names of an advisory committee recommending finalists for a governmental job secret? Our city manager came up with a secret panel to help select finalists for police chief and then refused to reveal their names until their work was done.

March 18, 2010