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  • Asked and Answered

    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

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    FOIA

    Records with the names of citizens and non-citizens

    I want to ask for some guidelines about the law (I am not sure if it is a law or not) that protects the names of illegal immigrants that are convicted in the U.S. of violent crimes. I want to have guidelines about which one is the story here, I want to know why […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA Police Records

    How can I gain access to my UC police records?

    I am seeking to obtain my records from the University of CA. (1) I received the following response to my request for supplemental records to two police reports. An attorney who specializes in FOIA requests advised that the following language may not constitute a legitimate denial to my records requests. He advised me to […]

    September 19, 2013

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Animal shelters deny CPRA request for names of rescue orgs we want to support

    […] of rescues that pull the animals (we stated specifically the rescue name was being requested for purposes of charitable donations). So is that information protected by some exemption defined by law? We have been given that information informally over the phone by staff in the past but lately for some shelters it has taken […]

    October 16, 2015

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    University fails to make good faith effort to respond to records request

    I was laid off by the University of California this fall.  I subsequently submitted two CPRA requests regarding funding sources for my position. I requested that I be told if this information was to be withheld, but I was told that I had a right to this information. However, it has been three to […]

    February 3, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Can Agencies Be Required to Choose Least Costly Format for Electronic Record Reproduction?

    Are California public bodies required to use the least costly method reasonably available to them for duplicating and (if separate) for transferring records responsive to a CPRA request? Is there case law on that question? Context: I am a frequent requestor of video records from agencies across all levels of government and across the […]

    November 27, 2018

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Does “Deliberative Process Privilege” Allow California governor to Withhold Communications Relating to Voter-Mandated Study?

    […] the Governor and his administration." Despite the requested communications only pertain to the mandated nonprofit feasibility study. The Governor's legal team has not responded to a request for an explanation of how the public interest in nondisclosure of the requested information outweighs the public interest in disclosure. I am currently trying to figure out […]

    March 13, 2020

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Can we submit a Public Records Act request for a California elected official’s personal emails, text messages?

    […] to the CPRA still apply to information contained in personal accounts, such as the exemptions for certain personal financial data, personnel and medical files, and the "catch-all" exemption of Cal. Gov. Code § 6255(a). In any event, any messages in the city council member’s accounts that substantively pertain to the public’s business (and are […]

    July 30, 2020

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    CPRA

    Request for names of Squid Vessel Permit buyers denied

    […] list, I specifically want the names of the buyers and seller, whether they be individuals or corporations. Before sending this request I spoke with an environmental scientist for the Department of Fish and Game. She believed the names of the buyers and sellers of Market Squid Vessel Permits were confidential and exempt from the […]

    June 11, 2015