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CPRA

Councilman asks intern on date via city issued cell

[…] city policy on preservation of emails, texts messages, etc. They responded that unless there are tagged as a important city record, they dump all emails after 30 days. Are there state standards for preservation? I have read of investigators getting emails and text messages from months prior, in investigations, how do they do that […]

November 21, 2009
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Brown Act CPRA

Planning Commissions, Confidential Complaints, and the CPRA

[…] she has been on the Commission. A sample letter requesting records can be found on CFAC's website, https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/cpra-primer/sample-cpra-request-letter/. Within 10 days of receipt of your request, sec. 6253(c) requires the agency to "determine whether the request ... seeks copies of disclosable public records," and to "promptly notify the person making the request of the determination […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Minutes deadline

[…] whether a request for public records seeks copies of disclosable public records and must notify the requester of its determination within 10 days. Cal. Govt. Code Section 6253(c).It is not clear what the city means when it says that the minutes "are not ready." It might be useful to make a PRA request for […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Records Request Response Included No Responsive Records

[…] the records you seek are exempt from disclosure, under the California Public Records Act (PRA), it is required to state those exemptions in its response.Gov’t Code § 6253(c). Further, public agencies like the District are required to assist members of the public to make focused and effective requests that "reasonably describes an identifiable record or […]

November 2, 2018
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CPRA

Records retention and PRA

[…] days, and "promptly notify" the requester if it will make the records available, or specifically state the reasons the records are exempt from disclosure. Gov't Code § 6253(c). It would seem that by deleting any records that were specifically requested by a member of the public, the agency could be potentially violating both the spirit and […]

April 26, 2016
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CPRA

Title IX Compliance Report

[…] writing. If it is in writing and the agency decides that it is going to decline your request, they are required to respond in writing (within 10 days) and specify the exemptions to disclosure on which they are relying. In unusual circumstances, the time limit prescribed in this section may be extended by written […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Enforcement of the Public Records Act

[…] law." Govt. Code § 6253(a). The PRA requires agencies to provide you with the documents requested, or notify you that your request has been denied, within 10 days. Gov't Code § 6253. If the written request is denied, the agency is obligated to back its denial by citing an exemption in the PRA or […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Enforcement of the CPRA

[…] law." Govt. Code § 6253(a). The PRA requires agencies to provide you with the documents requested, or notify you that your request has been denied, within 10 days. Gov't Code § 6253. If the written request is denied, the agency is obligated to back its denial by citing an exemption in the PRA or […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

A Can the city legally refuse to fulfill my request unless I use their form?

[…] public records in the possession of the agency and shall promptly notify the person making the request of the determination and the reasons therefor." Gov't Code § 6253(c). "When the dispatches the determination, and if the determines that the request seeks disclosable public records, the agency shall state the estimated date and time when the […]

August 13, 2015
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CPRA School Records

CPRA and “Prompt” Production of Records

[…] writing, if it will make the records available, or specifically state the exemption it is claiming and how it applies to the requested records. Gov't Code § 6253(c). Unfortunately, after the agency informs the requester that it will make the records available, the PRA does not provide a specific timeline by which an agency must […]

May 23, 2018