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    A close look at Google’s handling of governments’ censorship demands

    […] of "compliance" with governmental take-down demands fell to 43 percent overall in the July-December 2012 period (48 percent for court orders). That Google acquiesces at all to government demands to remove content may come as a surprise to many.  After all, Google withdrew its search business from China, the world's biggest internet market, to […]

    April 26, 2013

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    2007 Open Government Legislative Roundup: Some successes and some failures

    2007 Open Government Legislative Roundup: Some successes and some failures By Nick Rahaim The 2007 legislative session started with a host of promising bills that would have created more transparency and would have reversed recent judicial and Attorney General opinions permitting excessive secrecy. There were some successes and some disappointments. The major disappointment was […]

    June 3, 2009

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    2007 CFAC Free Speech & Open Government Assembly

    […] Amendment Coalition is seeking nominations for its annual Beacon and Darkness awards, given in recognition of exceptional efforts, during 2006 and 2007, to advance and defend open- government and freedom of speech (Beacon Awards), and the opposite: exceptional efforts to curtail public access and free expression (Darkness Awards). Deadline for award nominations is September […]

    June 3, 2009

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    CPRA

    City misses CPRA request deadlines “due to staff vacancies”?

    My friend and I first requested financial records for two affordable housing projects receiving government subsidies on August 19. The City responded on August 27 informing us that due to staff vacancies they could not fulfill our request, and that they would provide a status update by October 1. On September 4, we responded to the […]

    October 12, 2015

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    CPRA

    Is US’s federally-funded research exempt from CPRA?

    If a group of scientists is doing research at a state university, but the research is funded entirely by the National Science Foundation (a federal agency), is the group’s work exempt from the CPRA?

    March 19, 2014

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    CPRA Police Records

    Disclosure of applicant information under PRA

    We're trying to request the applications of taxicab applicants to see if the regulatory body is discriminating. The public agency has redacted most of the applications for fear of a misdemeanor in releasing "convictions," (e.g. the agency maintains its own allegations of infractions and the applicants voluntarily submitted their place of doing business and […]

    March 22, 2016

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Councilmembers texting during meeting a Brown Act violation?

    We have noticed a new trend during City Council meetings. We are seeing council and staff texting/emailing to each other while on the dais. This is occurring during the public comment item of the meeting and includes the city attorney. We would like to CPRA these texts but believe they will either claim they […]

    May 23, 2013

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    CPRA

    My CPRA request was denied due to “attorney-client privilege”

    […] informed "the report has been withheld as it is considered attorney-client privilege". I question this logic. If a portion of the report had been previously made public by the client it seems that to claim attorney-client privilege for the entire report is not justified. I would very much like to hear your opinion on […]

    September 14, 2015

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    CPRA

    Is a Salary/Wage Review Really A “Trade Secret”?

    […] Their response was, "Said records are not subject to public disclosure as they constitute valuable trade secrets of the District which if disclosed to competitors could undermine the District's efforts to recruit and retain qualified employees (California Government Code Section 6267 and California Evidence Code Section 1060)." Is this in fact truly a trade secret?

    July 2, 2010