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  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA Police Records

    Police Reports and the CPRA

    […] said that, in enacting the California Public Records Act (CPRA), "the state Legislature ... limited the CPRA's exemption for law enforcement investigatory files," in Government Code §  6254(f), "by requiring agencies to disclose specific information derived from the materials in investigatory files rather than the materials, themselves."  Thus, the Court said, the "required disclosures of […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Police Records School Records

    College Campus Police Blotter

    […] although the CPRA would apply to such records to the extent the police working on the campus are members of local police departments. However, Government Code section 6254(f) sets forth the so-called "law enforcement" exemption, which allows police agencies to withhold investigatory records.  This exemption does not, on the other hand, allow the police to […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Police Records

    Accessing police documents

    While the police department may try to argue that the record is exempt from disclosure under Government Code section 6254(f).  While that section exempts several categories of records -- records of complaints and investigations, records of intelligence information or security procedures, and investigatory and security files -- there is a good argument that a monthly […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Trying To Access Autopsy Records Of Mass Shooting Victims

    […] and the provisions of California Government Code section 27491.8. Note that the CPRA contains a very broad exemption for police investigatory records. Specifically, Cal. Gov. Code § 6254(f) exempts "records of complaints to, or investigations conducted by, or records of intelligence information or security procedures of…any state or local police agency, or any investigatory or […]

    April 1, 2020

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    If the federal FOIA shared the limitations of California’s public records law, large parts of American history would be blank.

    […] engrafted thereon. If that were the case, none of these records ever would have seen the light of day. Why? Because the CPRA infamously includes section   6254(f), which authorizes the denial of requests for "investigative" or "security files" "compiled by any state or local police agency." Although there are exceptions for specific pieces of […]

    October 14, 2014

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    Brown Act CPRA

    The mayor refused to let me make a public comment without identifying myself

    […] public records relating to complaints or investigations of misconduct by public employees. For example, in BRV, Inc. v. Superior Court, 143 Cal.App.4th 742(2006), the court found an investigative report into a school superintendent's alleged misconduct must be disclosed, observing: "embers of the public were greatly concerned about the behavior of the city's high school […]

    August 26, 2010

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    CPRA Police Records

    Missing persons report and the CPRA

    […] . . investigatory or security files compiled by any . . . state or local police agency."  They are therefore exempt from disclosure under Government Code section 6254(f).  However, the police department must disclose certain information contained in the report (unless doing so would endanger their investigation-and any such claim should be treated skeptically): 1. […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    City Council Is Proposing to Order Police to “Resist” PRA Requests

    […] information would endanger the safety of a person involved in an investigation or would endanger the successful completion of the investigation or a related investigation." Gov’t Code 6254(f). This information includes: (1) The full name and occupation of every individual arrested by the agency, the individual’s physical description including date of birth, color of eyes […]

    May 17, 2019