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FAC Opposes Legislation That Would Harm Your Right to Know

Act now to ensure a state agency can’t shield police misconduct records Just two years ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a landmark police accountability law, SB 2, that gave the state the ability to strip abusive officers of their badges. Now the Newsom administration wants to cancel the transparency part of that law, […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 21, 2023
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Journalist Sues City of Fresno for Withholding Public Records About Taser Use that Caused Severe Burns

[…] the California Public Records Act (CPRA) for the city’s refusal to release use-of-force records regarding the death of Michael Sanders, who was tased multiple times by Fresno police officers in 2004. The First Amendment Coalition and Tenaya Rodewald and Matthew Halgren of the law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton represent Howey. While […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 21, 2023
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FAC Again Prevails in Unsealing Search Warrants Executed on SF Journalist Bryan Carmody

[…] Bryan Carmody —for his home, office and phone. The release of these materials should help answer a central question in the Carmody saga: how the San Francisco Police Department was able to obtain search warrants against a working journalist, when such warrants are clearly prohibited under both California and federal law. In announcing her […]
- Press Freedom
August 5, 2019
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CPRA

The California Department of Health Services, Ongoing Investigations, and Public Records

[…] an ongoing investigation. If so, it may be that the agency is taking the position that they can properly assert the exemption found under Government Code section 6254(f), which exempts investigative files in the possession of certain agencies. The public agencies entitled to assert such exemption, however, are those with a general law enforcement mission […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

CA Police Deny CPRA Request on Six-Month Old Case

Made Request for records under 6257(f) as the "authorized representative"of a victim and police are claiming disclosure would "endanger successful completion" of six-month-old investigation. No objection re standing or anything else just the investigation exemption. They refuse to articulate how disclosure would endanger. Can't find any case law on this exemption.

April 11, 2018
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CPRA Newsgathering

Dental Board of California & the CPRA

[…] CPRA request for reports of dental complications pursuant to the Business and Professions Code 1680(z)(1-3). The Board maintains that these records are exempt under Government Code Section 6254(f). The Board contends that these reports are exempt because they are complaints or investigations compiled for licensing purposes. I believe the Board is wrong for two reasons: i) […]

April 19, 2016
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CPRA

Public Agency claims investigation files are exempt PRA

Unfortunately, it may be that the records you seek do fall into the investigatory exemption found in the Public Records Act under Government Code § 6254(f). In addition to investigatory files of police departments, the exemption also encompasses other types of investigatory records, including those "compiled by any other state or local agency for correctional, law enforcement, […]

December 13, 2014
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CPRA Police Records

Obtaining police records

I am trying to find out what information regarding city police officers is public, specifically their resume, criminal record and formal complaints? Any information you can give me about investigating cops would be more than wonderful, thanks so much for your time!

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Labor Commission Records

[…] are presumptively available for public inspection and copying unless one of the Act's exemptions applies. In this case, that exemption that likely applies is found in section 6254(f), which exempts "records of investigations" as well as "investigatory files" held by law enforcement agencies and by any state or local agency that compiles such records for […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Police Records

Jail Files of Prisoner Suicide

[…] are presumptively available for public inspection and copying unless one of the Act's exemptions applies. In this case, that exemption that likely applies is found in section 6254(f), which exempts "records of investigations" as well as "investigatory files" held by law enforcement agencies. Unfortunately, the California Supreme Court has held that this exemption operates to […]

June 14, 2009