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CPRA

Boating Accidents and the CPRA

[…] agencies are presumptively available for public inspection and copying unless one of the Act's exemptions applies. In this case, the Sheriff's department is probably relying on section 6254(f), which exempts "records of investigations" as well as "investigatory files." Unfortunately, the exemption continues to apply even after an investigation has been completed. That said, the sheriff's […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA School Records

Accessing university’s decision making on promotions and tenure

June 9, 2015
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CPRA

Accessing Aggregated Medical Information for COVID-19 Deceased

October 30, 2020
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CPRA

Denied Access to City Attorney Fees in Police Officer Assault Case

I recently submitted a PRA request to our city attorney’s office regarding the legal defense of a city police officer. He is facing trial for assaulting a suspect. I simply inquired if he was paying his own defense or if the city was footing the bill. Their response was that 1) My request was […]

May 9, 2019
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CPRA

Is A Letter From A Water District Lawyer A City Attorney Public?

December 7, 2018
Cases

First Amendment Newsgathering

Los Angeles Press Club v. City of Los Angeles

This lawsuit challenges the Los Angeles Police Department’s pattern of violating the rights of reporters to cover ongoing protests against federal immigration enforcement.
- Press Freedom
June 18, 2025
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CPRA School Records

What can be done if I believe a public school district has improperly withheld records that should be accessible under the CPRA?

[…] type of records such an agency may keep, nor to provide a method of correcting such records. Its sole function is to provide for disclosure." Los Angeles Police Dept. v. Superior Court, 65 Cal. App. 3d 661, 668 (1977). One court recently said, "the CPRA is not a records retention statute since the CPRA […]

May 27, 2025
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Why The Fight For Court Access is So Important – Even When it Fails

[…] in question were themselves about government transparency. Both hearings stemmed from a California Public Records Act lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Northern California against the Vallejo Police Department, alleging that the department failed to produce records relating to investigations into police abuses, as required under the CPRA. The records related to a scandal […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 4, 2024
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Journalists must be allowed to do their jobs while government officials do theirs

[…] photographers in the field are facing unacceptable obstacles. When the Sacramento Bee’s Renée C. Byer and Theresa Clift covered a sweep of a large encampment, they encountered police tape cordoning off an entire city block and the threat of arrest. "I can’t get back those missed vital images of the police storming the gate […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
September 17, 2024
Handbooks

California Brown Act Primer

[…] to the individual official the authority to create the committee or other body. This also covers interagency task forces "delegated with authority possessed by city councils to exercise municipalities’ police powers with public funds," McKee v. Los Angeles Interagency Metropolitan Police Apprehension Crime Task Force, 134 Cal.App.4th 354, 363 (2005). [10] Gov. Code § 54952(d).
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 8, 2024