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CPRA

Public Availability and Destruction of Temporary or Handwritten Notes

The last time I used the Legal Hotline for this matter (a few weeks back), your legal council suggested that I re-submit a new, formal PRA request asking for the "binder notes" from our County Public Works Director. So, I used aversion of the sample letter provided on cfac.org, as suggested, where it […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Non-response to CPRA requests

I sent a public records act request to the City Clerk of my City and I have not received a call or response to my request. I am sending a second letter and attaching the first letter, but what can I do next if the city does not respond?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Police Records

Missing persons report and the CPRA

I plan on submitting a public records request for a missing persons report that was filed with a police department. The individual filed as a missing person was found dead a day later. Is such a record public, when it could possibly be evidence in a murder investigation? Such a report is filed with […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Closed college governing body meeting to endorse trustees candidate

I have what is probable a simple question for you. I am wondering if a student governing body at a college can meet in close session to discuss possibly endorsing a candidate for the board of trustees in an upcoming election? Would this violate the Brown Act?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Labor Commission Records

I was a defendant in a claim a terminated employee made at the Industrial Relations/Dept of Labor. Before the hearing I requested in writing numerous times copies of the file. I was told after the 3rd letter to file a California Public Records Act 'claim'. I did that and have followed up 6 times […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

JPA/private company partnership and the CPRA?

If a city formed a joint powers association with a private company, is this joint powers association subject the California Public Records Act? Can any member of the public get access to the records if the records are kept by the private company?

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Internal Decision-Making and the Brown Act

After a city planning meeting, I was outside with the City manager and another neighbor talking about the meeting. It was in regards to building a complex by the river that runs threw our town. We (the neighborhood) are opposed to the complex and the meeting was to address that. She told us it […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Destruction of Public Records

[…] be immediately destroyed concurrent with the vote to stop recording future sessions. Aside from the obvious Brown Act violation in that it wasn't agendized, do you know the rules on retention and destruction of government records and, specifically, the limits on destroying tapes of closed sessions (These are the only existing records of these sessions).

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Police Records

Destruction of Memos by the Police Department

[…] their responses in a memo to the city manager. Then the survey responses were destroyed. The responses were much less than two years old, and were submitted by the officers anonymously, so no survey response can be traced to an individual officer. The survey asked the officers about the operations of the department. Was […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

CPRA request response time

I recently submitted a request for records under the California Public Records Act to a State University. I issued the request in hard format to the University and had the secretary date, stamp it and make a copy for me. I have not heard back from the University. According to the law they are […]

June 14, 2009