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    CPRA First Amendment Police Records

    CPRA has time limits on public document’s is availability?

    […] the 1970s and '80s. This information pertains to the who, what, when, where, etc. of the cases I'm researching. Based on my reading of Government Code Section 6254(f), the information I'm requesting is not investigatory in nature and is fair game under the California Public Records Act. Moreover, all of the cases I'm researching were […]

    March 30, 2015

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    CPRA Police Records

    Despite New Laws, My Request for Police Body Camera Footage Has Been Repeatedly Denied

    In light of SB 1421 and AB 748, I submitted a request to the city and the police department for the body camera footage and internal affairs investigation report of an incident that happened at my home involving the discharge of a firearm at a person (me) by a peace officer and the use […]

    February 8, 2021

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    Why Support FAC?

    ‘Stop Shooting Her!’: Video of Fatal Shooting of Teen Shows Why Police Transparency Matters

    July 20, 2024

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    How Can I Request All Audio and Video of My Arrest?

    […] police agency, or any investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local agency for correctional, law enforcement, or licensing purposes." Cal. Gov. Code § 6254(f). The exemption for "investigatory records" applies "when the prospect of enforcement proceedings becomes concrete and definite."Williams v. Superior Court, 5 Cal. 4th 337, 356 (1993). It can […]

    August 8, 2020

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    CPRA Police Records

    Traffic Citations and the CPRA

    I have questions in two areas of the CPRA 1. Are traffic citations written by local police agencies records that can (have been) released under CPRA? I’m not an attorney so I’m not sure if these documents would constitute a record of an "arrest" per se since the violator has, in essence, been detained […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    My PRA request denied, but Buzzfeed published documents on similar case

    […]  County of Los Angeles v. Superior Court, 82 Cal. App. 4th 819, 830 (2000). The PRA also exempts investigatory records as set forth in Gov't Code § 6254(f) which includes, in relevant part: Records of complaints to, or investigations conducted by, or records of intelligence information or security procedures of, the office of the Attorney […]

    September 2, 2016

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    CPRA Police Records

    Denied police records because they were not in “searchable format”

    I submitted a rather complex public records request to a number of local police agencies. My requests sought records pertaining to individuals detained by local police and subsequently turned over to federal immigration authorities, without formal arrest. My requests have been denied on various grounds, but most of them on the basis of County […]

    August 17, 2012

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    CPRA Police Records

    Police refuse to release names of individuals who bought stolen laptop

    My laptop was taken in a burglary.  When the police located it, it had been bought and sold twice people who had it innocently bought it off Craigslist. Those people are listed as "witness" on the police report. Police refuse to identify them to me because 1) they don't release witness identities 2) release their […]

    December 12, 2014