Write a review of FAC to help us keep our Top Rated Nonprofit status!

Search Results

Clear Results
Category
Topic
Select Year

Showing 91 - 100 of 139 results

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA Police Records

    Obtaining Copies of Video

    […] copy of it through a PRA request.  Please note, the law enforcement agency may attempt to withhold the video pursuant to the law enforcement exemption under section 6254(f), which exempts "records of investigations" as well as "investigatory files" held by law enforcement agencies.  However, where, as here, the record was created for routine purposes, and […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Latest News

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    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