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    CPRA Newsgathering Police Records

    Requests for crime reports denied by police department

    […] crime reports from our local police department. I've requested crime reports twice and both times I'm told that they are being withheld because of Government Code section 6254(f). To be clear, one time I requested all crime reports that had been filed over a month period. The second time, I requested the reports for three […]

    July 10, 2017

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    CPRA

    Police Deny Request for Previously Public Statement Claiming Exemptions

    Unfortunately, under California’s Public Records Act, police investigatory records are exempt from disclosure under Government Code § 6254(f), which exempts "[r]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 agency, or any investigatory or security files compiled by […]

    May 15, 2019

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    CPRA

    Multiple CPRA Requests For A Decades Old Homicide Have Been Denied Without Explanation

    […] Act allows an agency to refuse to disclose the identity of a person who has furnished information in confidence to a law enforcement officer. Gov. Code § 6254(f). The same provision exempts from disclosure law enforcement records of complaints, investigations, records of intelligence information or security procedures, and investigatory or security files.Id.Documents that are exempt […]

    April 28, 2022

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    CPRA Police Records

    Trouble obtaining arrest records and mugshots

    […] currently being held, and all charges the individual is being held upon, including any outstanding warrants from other jurisdictions and parole or probation holds Gov't Code § 6254(f). As to mugshots, unfortunately, there is no California case that discusses whether the Public Records Act requires release of booking photographs, or whether such records are exempt. […]

    October 28, 2011

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    CPRA

    What rules apply to searching DMV database?

    […] information you are requesting seems to required to be disclosed under the Act.Although the Act exempts certain law enforcement records, such as investigative records, Gov't Code section 6254(f), information such as the time, substance, and location of all complaints or requests for assistance received by the agency and the time and nature of the response […]

    December 7, 2010

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    CPRA Police Records

    Access to records in workers’ comp issue

    […] Public Records Act broadly exempts police investigatory reports from disclosure, and it may be that the records you seek fall within this exemption.  Under Government Code § 6254(f), "Records of . . . investigations conducted by . . . any state or local police agency, or any investigatory . . . files compiled by any […]

    April 5, 2016