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    CPRA Police Records

    Who is allowed to access arrest records?

    […] or local police agency, or any investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local agency for correctional, law enforcement, or licensing purposes."Gov't Code Section 6254(f). While some information must be disclosed under the PRA, it may not be everything your client is looking for: Notwithstanding any other provision of this subdivision, state […]

    October 25, 2011

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    CPRA Police Records

    Should I need authorization to access arrest records?

    […] local police agency, or any investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local agency for correctional, law enforcement, or licensing purposes." Gov't Code Section 6254(f). While some information must be disclosed under the PRA, it may not be everything your client is looking for. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subdivision, state […]

    November 22, 2011

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    CPRA Police Records

    Police Call Logs and Public Records

    […] 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

    Police Call and Arrest Logs

    […] 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

    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

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    CPRA

    911 transcripts

    […] link: https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/cpra-primer/sample-cpra-request-letter/ It is possible the agency that maintains the transcript or tape may try to claim that it is protected from disclosure by Government Code section 6254(f), which contains an exemption for records of complaints to, or investigations conducted by, a state or local police agency.  However, the application of this exemption to your […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Court Records CPRA Police Records

    Can I be denied access to files on decades-old, closed murder case?

    […] to disclose any records related to this old case.  I am assuming that in responding to your request, the DA cited the investigatory records exemption, Gov’t Code § 6254(f), to the Public Records Act.  (The California Public Records Act would govern requests to both the DA and local police, as opposed to the federal Freedom of Information […]

    April 10, 2015