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CPRA Police Records

Is footage taken by an officer wearing a body-camera a public document?

[…] should respond to your request within 10 days, letting you know whether it will release the footage or not, and if not, exactly why (citing the specific exemption and describing how it applies to the records that you seek). Gov’t Code 6253(c). The California Public Records Act applies to "any writing containing information relating […]

June 12, 2014
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Brown Act CPRA

Redaction of investigative report

The Brown Act governs access to meetings and provides exemptions for when meetings may be held in closed session. Unfortunately there is no section of the Brown Act that requires a government body such as the city council to meet for discussion regarding a particular topic. The Public Record Act governs which government records […]

August 12, 2014
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CPRA Police Records

How can I get the police dept. to release a shooting report?

The local police department is refusing to release a report on a shooting. Many months have passed since the incident. They give no explanation for their actions. What would be the best way to proceed to get them to release the report?

September 30, 2011
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CPRA Police Records

Under CPRA, do I have a right to know who issued a citation?

[…] makes available the requested records pursuant to Section 6253. (2) The public agency determines that the request should be denied and bases that determination solely on an exemption listed in Section 6254. (3) The public agency makes available an index of its records. Gov't Code § 6253.1. In other words, the agency should assist […]

September 10, 2014
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CPRA

Public Officials’ Personal Email

[…] city council member's use of his/her personal email account to discuss city business make that account subject to Public Records Act Requests? If so, is there a threshold between a single or several incidental uses and the systematic use of the personal email for city business that would trigger the account's exposure to such requests?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Public official salaries and the CPRA

I'd like to find information on executive salaries for public utility organizations (SMUD, LADWP, WAPA and NCPA). Can you advise me if these are publicly available records and if so, what’s the best way to obtain them might be?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Public Availability and Destruction of Temporary or Handwritten Notes

The last time I used the Legal Hotline for this matter (a few weeks back), your legal council suggested that I re-submit a new, formal PRA request asking for the "binder notes" from our County Public Works Director. So, I used aversion of the sample letter provided on cfac.org, as suggested, where it reads: […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Medi-Cal, Provider Rates, Confidentiality

[…] purposes of the Public Records Act, the law provides that records created, owned or maintained by that entity are public records, unless one of the Act's many exemptions to disclosure apply. As a first step, I would suggest that you send the entity a written request for records reflecting the information you seek. A […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Local Agencies’ Request for Qualifications Bids

What are the legal requirements for Request for Qualifications Bids/responses to be available for the public to review? Can we use legislation in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain developers' responses to an RFQ? The agency is a local government redevelopment agency that has put out an RFQ to developers for the […]

June 14, 2009
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FOIA

Foreign Officials, Detention, Privacy, and the Freedom of Information Act

A former Philippine official, who is wanted in the Philippines for corruption charges, is detained at an immigration holding center in California -- reportedly for violation of immigration law. (It was reported that the official’s visa was revoked by the State Department.) The Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the State Department have refused to […]

June 14, 2009