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    Brown Act CPRA

    Proposals and Public Records, Limiting Public Comment

    […] 6252.  The right to inspect and copy the records maintained by state or local agencies is presumed, unless some exemption of the PRA applies.  Gov't Code § 6253(b).  It is not immediately apparent whether any exemption would apply to exempt the proposals you reference.  (The exemption for "preliminary drafts, notes, or interagency or intra-agency memoranda" […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Countering a claim of non-existent records

    […] consent of the city attorney, the head of a city department may destroy any city record, document, instrument, book or paper, under his charge, without making a copy thereof, after the same is no longer required. This section does not authorize the destruction of: (a) Records affecting the title to real property or liens […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Complaints, and Public Record

    My city’s Code Enforcement department has many pages of complaints about the building in which I'm living. I am collecting documentation, and I would like a copy of the pages (I think there are 5) of complaints they've had about this building. I imagine that these are public record, as Code Enforcement is a […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Attempting to access phone call recordings made from jail

    I want to request a copy of the recordings or transcripts of phone calls placed by an inmate at the County Jail. Are there cases or laws that I can use in my request to argue for releasing this media?

    January 13, 2016

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    CPRA

    Economic Interest Disclosure Statements

    […] Code section  6253.   At this point, your recourse would be to file a petition for writ of mandate requiring the Clerk's Office to respond, either by providing a copy of the form 700 disclosure statements or explaining in writing why they cannot or will not do so (and, in the latter case, citing the specific […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Is CPRA 10-day deadline measured in calendar days or weekdays?

    The PRA provides that "ach agency, upon a request for a copy of records, shall, within 10 days from receipt of the request, determine whether the request, in whole or in part, seeks copies of disclosable public records…" Govt Code § 6253(c) Is that 10 business days or 10 calendar days? How long do […]

    August 23, 2010

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    CPRA

    Right to “inspect” public records?

    […] during the office hours of the agency in question.  See Government Code sec. 6253.  The right to "inspect" is separate from the right to receive a " copy" -- so you have a right to look at the original documents without having the agency make copies (which you would have to pay for).  However, […]

    June 14, 2009