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    CPRA

    CA Medical Board non-responsive to PRA request

    […] and the document they sent had whole sections missing and a number of individual pages (there were a few pages marked with redactions). Their legal council just keeps quoting 6254(f) as the reason they're not providing some of them. I don't feel like that fulfills what the law says they have to provide. 6254(f) is not a reason, it's just […]

    September 11, 2016

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    CPRA Police Records

    Are police informant contracts subject to the PRA?

    […] provision of the Act or other law exempts them from disclosure. The exemption that seems most immediately relevant is the police investigatory records exemption, Gov’t Code § 6254(f), which exempts "any investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local police agency."  However, the record at issue must actually be part of the […]

    April 27, 2016

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    CPRA Police Records

    Is footage taken by an officer wearing a body-camera a public document?

     How do I go about requesting from the  Police Dept. footage  taken with a hidden camera worn by one of their officers? Also if it actually wasn't a Dept. issued body camera but either a personal or Dept. Issued cell/smart phone set up as a camera worn on the officer's person, does that footage qualify under […]

    June 12, 2014

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    CPRA Police Records

    Police Records and Investigation Files

    I submitted a CPRA request to the Police Department. Both times they ignored the written request. The first time, I was told by a representative orally that the requested records (which are public documents including departmental policies) could not be turned over until the department's investigation into an officer involved shooting was completed (which […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    911 transcripts

    […] link: https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/cpra-primer/sample-cpra-request-letter/ It is possible the agency that maintains the transcript or tape may try to claim that it is protected from disclosure by Government Code section 6254(f), which contains an exemption for records of complaints to, or investigations conducted by, a state or local police agency.  However, the application of this exemption to your […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Records request denied due to ongoing investigation

    […] some law enforcement authority, it is possible that the records you seek are exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Act's law enforcement exemption, Gov't Code section 6254(f).  This exemption includes: "Records of complaints to, or investigations conducted by, or records of intelligence information or security procedures of, the office of the Attorney General and […]

    June 5, 2010

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    CPRA

    DA Office Complaint Records

    […] the CPRA, records in the possession of public entities are presumed to be public unless one of the Act's enumerated exceptions to disclosure applies.  Government Code section 6254(f) sets forth the so-called "law enforcement" exemption, which allows law enforcement agencies to withhold, among other things, records of complaints and investigatory records.  This exemption does not, […]

    June 14, 2009