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Obtaining the names of notaries public

Under the California Public Records Act ("PRA"), the public has a right to inspect and copy any record held by any state or local agency unless one of the Act's specific exemptions applies. See California Government Code 6253. All state and local agencies are subject to the Act; a local agency is not permitted […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Naturalization records

Are California naturalization certificates (mainly pre-1906) available to the public to see and copy? Sonoma and Santa Barbara counties only let the public see index cards containing names and dates.

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act CPRA

Internal audit reports and the CPRA

[…] interest in withholding the reports clearly outweighs the public interest in disclosure. You might also point out that if you are forced to sue the agency to obtain a copy of the records and the court decides that they should have been disclosed, you would be entitled to your attorneys' fees. Govt. Code Section 6259(d).

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

CPRA request response time

[…] 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 required to notify me within ten business days. I called […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act CPRA

Community College Senate, Listservs, and Public Record

[…] or maintained by state or local agencies. The right to inspect and copy the records is presumed, unless some exemption of the PRA applies. Gov't Code § 6253(b). The PRA defines "public records" as including "any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public's business prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Access to Coroner’s Files

[…] ." Govt. Code Section 6253(a). The Act also provides that copies of public records are available upon request (upon payment of the costs of duplication). Id. at Section 6253(b). You might consider re-submitting your request to the coroner's office as a request for public records, casting it in terms of records you would like copied rather […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

CPRA not denied, but never produced by agency

[…] provided," and that "except with respect to public records exempt from disclosure by express provisions of law, each state or local agency, upon a request for a copy of records that reasonably describes an identifiable record or records, shall make the records promptly available to any person upon payment of fees covering direct costs […]

February 2, 2011
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CPRA

Accessing Polling Done with Public Funds

[…] taken by a district here in the Bay Area. Assuming that the District does not have physical possession of the complete poll in any form (which I doubt to be true), can the PRA be used to compel disclosure from the pollster? Can the District be forced to get a complete copy of the poll?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Trying To Access Autopsy Records Of Mass Shooting Victims

[…] any California published cases addressing the disclosure of coroner’s records under the PRA. However, in a case addressing the ability of a criminal defendant to obtain a copy of an autopsy report in order to prepare his defense, a California Court of Appeal held that, because California law requires coroners to investigate cause of […]

April 1, 2020
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CPRA

Records Request Response Included No Responsive Records

I submitted a Public Records request to my Unified School District and paid the copy fee, but when I picked up the packet it did not contain any of the items that listed. Instead it was a copy of my Personnel file, which I am already entitled to obtain even without the request? Can […]

November 2, 2018