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Electronic Filing of Campaign Disclosure Data

[…] available to members of the public who contact the city clerk’s office directly to request paper copies or e-mailed copies. Given that campaign finance data is an official public record, is it legal for the city to require members of the public to jump through extra hoops in order to obtain the full unredacted data?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

E-Filing of Campaign Finance Data,0

[…] available to members of the public who contact the city clerk’s office directly to request paper copies or e-mailed copies. Given that campaign finance data is an official public record, is it legal for the city to require members of the public to jump through extra hoops in order to obtain the full unredacted data?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Drafts and Public Record

My city is reviewing and commenting on a Draft EIR for a large project they are undertaking. They have been getting drafts and commenting on it and then returning the comments to the consultant who presumably is editing the EIR in response to the comments. Are the Drafts of the EIR public records that […]

June 14, 2009
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Court Records

Civil Harassment Restraining Order Filings; Non-Internet Accessible

The County Superior Court maintains an "Open Access" internet database system for access to court records and filings, including dockets in all civil and criminal cases and downloads of all filed and imaged pleadings and other filed documents in civil cases -- with one exception. All dockets and imaged documents are publicly inaccessible for […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

City’s stonewalling newspapers

[…] not speak to this newspaper at all, and so we only communicate through documents gotten through public records requests. A recent from us to the city asked for "all audits performed by Municipal Auditing Services in calendar years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007". The city attorney sent a letter stating they will not […]

June 14, 2009
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Court Records CPRA First Amendment FOIA

Appellate Case Court Records

I made an FOIA request to the appellate court for list of cases (included those unpublished) filed for appeal relating to two Superior Court judges for the past 5 years. Their response was a letter stating they didn’t have any cases on file for me. There is, in fact a case on file but […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Accessing Government Phone Records

I am researching a public records request. It is my understanding, post Prop 59, that the public paid for cell phone and desk phone records of elected officials are available for review by citizens/news organizations, etc. and that privilege can not be invoked by a municipality or local government to redact the incoming and […]

June 14, 2009
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Court Records

Accessing Court Records and List of Cases

Made FOIA request to the appellate court for list of cases (included those unpublished) filed for appeal relating to 2 Superior Court judges for past 5 years. Response was a letter stating they didn’t have any cases on file for me. There is, in fact a case on file but not what I asked […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA School Records

Accessing a public employee’s resume

[…] and publications [of the employee] . . . is routinely presented in professional and social settings, is relatively innocuous and implicates no applicable privacy or public policy exemption." Id. at 794. http://login.findlaw.com/scripts/callaw?dest=ca/calapp3d/134/788.html With respect to disciplinary records of public employees, California courts have held that there is a strong public policy against disclosure of […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Access to rezoning information

Our local school district here in decided that they want to rezone school boundaries. The district went ahead and formed a committee to make boundary recommendations. The committee members were chosen by invitation only, without any notice to the public at large. We (myself, and other members of the community) recently learnt that all […]

June 14, 2009