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Court Records CPRA First Amendment Police Records

Sheriff’s office refuses to release crime report unless I am a victim

Unfortunately, under California’s Public Records Act ("PRA"), police "investigatory reports" are exempt from disclosure. Gov’t Code § 6254(f) (exempting "any investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local police agency"). It sounds like the crime reports you are seeking access to fall within this category, so it is likely that the police agency […]

November 16, 2015
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CPRA

Access of relatives to murder investigation files

[…] disclosure. Based on the information you have provided, it is likely that some of the documents you seek would be exempt from disclosure under Government Code section 6254(f), which allows law enforcement agencies to refuse to release records of investigations. Authorized representatives of victims are entitled to certain additional information that is not otherwise available […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Newsgathering

Should complaints against belligerent councilman be public?

[…] has a reduced expectation of privacy based on his or her position. 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 19, 2011
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CPRA Newsgathering Police Records

Does the CPRA allow access to mugshots?

[…] ongoing and the disclosure of the mug shot you have requested would endanger the successful completion of the investigation and any possible future criminal prosecution. (Gov. Code 6254(f), 86 Ops. Cal. Atty. Gen. 132.) Public Interest: Based upon the facts of this particular case, the public interest served by not disclosing the record clearly outweighs […]

December 23, 2012
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CPRA Police Records

Accessing Police Reports on Investigations

[…] the CPRA, records in the possession of public entities are presumed to be public unless one of the Act's enumerated exceptions to disclosure applies. Government Code section 6254(f) sets forth the so-called "law enforcement" exemption, which allows law enforcement agencies (such as a city police department) to withhold, among other things, records of complaints and […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Police Records

Police Denied My Request For An Incident Report

[…] want to write back and press them to justify their withholding. That said, it is likely the police here are withholding the report pursuant to Government Code § 6254(f), which exempts "records of complaints to, or investigations conducted by, or records of intelligence information or security procedures…or security files compiled by any other state or local police […]

January 4, 2020
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CPRA FOIA Police Records

Sheriff’s office won’t release names of inmates held on immigration charges

[…] The Sheriff's Office believes that the names of jail inmates are protected from disclosure under the California Public Records Act as security records under Government Code Section 6254(f). In addition, disclosure of local summary criminal history information is prohibited pursuant to Penal Code Section 13300 (violation is a misdemeanor per Penal Code Section 13302), which […]

August 26, 2011
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CPRA Police Records

Police Blotter Information

[…] City Attorney denied my request to have the Department print a more detailed report. In summary, the City Attorney responded: "As to your concerns regarding Government Code 6254(f)(2) which you believe requires certain information in a "police blotter", we must disagree with your reading of the law. Although the information listed in Government Code […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

The California Department of Health Services, Ongoing Investigations, and Public Records

[…] before they got sick. These are part of the investigation, but they are also personal medical records. I'm worried they will try to keep all of the investigative records private. Even the lab tests looking at the DNA of the E. coli - these were government tests done in the public interest with taxpayer […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Police Records

Denied request for identities of homicide victims four years after the crime

It would seem likes names would fall into the narrow category of information that is required to be disclosed about police investigations under Government Code § 6254(f). As you may be aware, the Public Records Act contains a general exemption for police investigatory records; however, certain information is required to be disclosed related to police incidents, […]

November 16, 2014