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E-Filing of Campaign Finance Data,0

After about a year of advocacy, I have convinced the city to adopt campaign finance e-filing and publishing of campaign finance disclosure data on the city's website. But the city council has directed the city clerk to redact campaign contributor street addresses in the online data. However, unredacted disclosure data will continue to be […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

DNA records

[…] rapist/killer. I would like to gain access to the crime files of a local Sheriff's department regarding the killer. The statute of limitations on the rapes committed by this person expired over a decade ago. There is DNA information in the crime files that has never been released to the public. I believe it […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Corporate Licenses

I am dealing with a building contractor in California. I have made several requests as to where the corporations licenses are posted for public review and the hours. The corporation refuses to respond. Any suggestions?

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act Newsgathering

Closed sessions, labor negotiations, and disclosure of outcome

I am a reporter and I recently covered a meeting where the City Council voted to replace the city's police department with county Sheriff's services. A number of opponents to this move have suggested that the Brown Act was violated when the council met in closed session to call for the Sheriff's proposal under […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Closed Sessions under the Brown Act

The Situation: the Board of Education for a local district meets in closed session without any prior notification to the public. It makes a personnel decision during that closed session and announces it to the public. Question: Is the unannounced closed session meeting in accordance with Brown Act or any other law? If […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

City deleting unread emails

I sent two emails to the Mayor of my city concerning official business and the mayor deleted them without reading them. Then, an email I sent to the City Manager about 30 days ago, more or less, was deleted unread, as the city's office email program deletes emails after 30 days. Is it proper […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Changing Regular Meetings to Special Meetings

[…] meetings to special meetings for the next 2 months. The board is not providing time for public comments on matters related to policies, programs or services provided by the district at the special meetings. Can the school district switch its regular meetings to special meetings for consecutive months and not conduct any regular meetings, […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Can settlements be negotiated in closed session if no pending litigation exists?

Our local water district has held a series (over 6 months) of closed sessions. It appears that the district is negotiating a water rights transfer or deal with another local water district. They cannot negotiate jointly a "settlement" agreement if no "pending" litigation exists. Isn't this a violation of the Brown Act? If so, […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Bring your own copier?

I have a question regarding the CA Public Records Act. We have put in a records request to a county government agency and are planning to visit the agency on Thursday to photocopy some documents. However, the agency is insisting that we not bring our own photocopier (which we normally do on such requests […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Newsgathering

Autopsy records of a public official

[…] medical examiner is refusing to release the clinical tests which were done to determine whether they had VIRAL hepatitis (i.e. hepatitis A or B). They are citing Government Code 6254 which exempts from disclosure "Personnel, medical, or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy." The medical examiner […]

June 14, 2009