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Accessing personal information in police reports
[…] an ongoing series of complaints against my health care provider. In the process one of the administrators decided I had made threats against her and filed a police complaint alleging I had threatened her. I went to get a copy of the report as evidence for my impending lawsuit and was told at the […]June 14, 2009
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How can I gain access to my UC police records?
I am seeking to obtain my records from the University of CA. (1) I received the following response to my request for supplemental records to two police reports. An attorney who specializes in FOIA requests advised that the following language may not constitute a legitimate denial to my records requests. He advised me to […]September 19, 2013
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City Council Is Proposing to Order Police to “Resist” PRA Requests
We have a City Council unfamiliar it seems with the First Amendment. The most recent proposal is to order the police to "resist" public records act requests for certain booking photos. The local journalist here is standing pretty much alone. My interest is only concerned citizen. I just looking for the ammunition to be […]May 17, 2019
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FAC Joins Letter to Sacramento Police Over Treatment of Journalists at Protest
The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) today joined the Committee to Protect Journalists and other press freedom organizations in sending a letter to the Sacramento police department to request a meeting over the treatment of journalist at a recent protest. You can read the full letter below: Chief Daniel Hahn Sacramento Police Department 5770 Freeport […]March 18, 2019
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FAC Succeeds in Unsealing Search Warrant Executed on SF Journalist Bryan Carmody
A San Francisco judge yesterday ordered police to publicly release sealed documents relating to a search warrant executed on freelance journalist Bryan Carmody, whose home and office were raided by SFPD in an unlawful show of force that shocked journalists and free-press advocates across the country. The order, the result of a motion filed […]July 19, 2019
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Investigative and disciplinary records pertaining to police officers
I requested information from the Police Department on an elder abuse investigation in the community. Through my open records request I was hoping to determine why the detective assigned to investigate, arbitrarily dismissed the case. The department gave no reason. I also asked whether there was any disciplinary action ever taken against the detective. […]June 14, 2009
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Trying to gain access to police records on musician’s unresolved cause of death
[…] information regarding the death of a musician-songwriter for a few years now. He died in 2003 from stab wounds and his case was declared inconclusive by the police, and has remained open since. The police has never been able to determine if it was a suicide or a murder. I know that the police […]April 13, 2012
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Can I be denied access to files on decades-old, closed murder case?
[…] and he is unwilling to share any information with me whatsoever. Therefore, my only real recourse is to attempt to secure relevant files, videos, pictures, coroner’s report, police report, and notes the information via a FOIA request. That having been said, I am not sure who I should approach with my request. Should I […]April 10, 2015