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CPRA First Amendment Police Records

CPRA has time limits on public document’s is availability?

[…] criminal cases from the 1970s and '80s. This information pertains to the who, what, when, where, etc. of the cases I'm researching. Based on my reading of Government Code Section 6254(f), the information I'm requesting is not investigatory in nature and is fair game under the California Public Records Act. Moreover, all of the […]

March 30, 2015
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CPRA

Are school district’s attorney fees public records?

I would like to know if a detail report of legal counsel's fees charged to the district is a public record. The attorney has told the district administrator that his invoices are not public records.

April 15, 2015
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CPRA Police Records

How can I gain access to my UC police records?

[…] police report from 2010. Although the UC police stated over the phone that a supplemental record existed and that a detective had been assigned to the case by name, the UC records office's response to my request for these records is that none exist. Any help vis-a-vis these records requests would be very much […]

September 19, 2013
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CPRA

Animal shelters deny CPRA request for names of rescue orgs we want to support

[…] the name of rescues that pull the animals (we stated specifically the rescue name was being requested for purposes of charitable donations). So is that information protected by some exemption defined by law? We have been given that information informally over the phone by staff in the past but lately for some shelters it […]

October 16, 2015
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First Amendment

Can teacher lose job if student-survey questions school board policy?

My questions are as follows: 1. If a teacher assigns students the task of survey development and distribution along with data collection and analysis, what free-speech guidelines should the students follow? What free speech guidelines should the teacher follow since the students are conducting the survey as an assignment for their class? I ask […]

June 5, 2010
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CPRA

Records request denied due to ongoing investigation

I made a CPRA request for information regarding enforcement of a housing ordinance. The response was that "the matter is under investigation." How long can the CPRA be denied with the explanation that the matter is "under investigation" ?

June 5, 2010
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CPRA

State college employees using work email for political campaigning

A member of the staff of a state college used his work email address for over two years to conduct a political campaign. County Counsel is both refusing to act on this matter, and claims there was no inappropriate use of a public email. He talks about door hangers, calling up talk shows, and […]

August 12, 2011
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CPRA School Records

Public official’s email communications

Background: the superintendent of schools has sent a number of emails to the school board in the past few weeks saying that these emails are confidential. My educated guess is that they deal with one case of a gun being found in a student's backpack and another case of near-campus melee that resulted in […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Getting information from closed sessions

Our board has agendized for the upcoming meeting the following under closed session using 54956.9 for the below items. a. Public Employee Discipline/Dismissal/Release b. Conference with Labor Negotiator Does this mean that during open session they need not disclose the position of the employee that was being disciplined and dismissed or what the labor […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Filing Complaint under State Audits Guidelines

In accordance with the guidelines on the CA. Board of State Audits web page (http://www.bsa.ca.gov/hotline/), I filed a complaint online concerning the improper use of outside contractors. I have requested various documents under the California Public Records Act in support of this complain. To date, I've only received a copy of the contractor agreement […]

June 14, 2009