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CPRA Newsgathering

Dental Board of California & the CPRA

I'm a reporter working on a project about complications linked to sedation dentistry. The Dental Board of California refused my CPRA request for reports of dental complications pursuant to the Business and Professions Code 1680(z)(1-3). The Board maintains that these records are exempt under Government Code Section 6254(f). The Board contends that these reports […]

April 19, 2016
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CPRA Police Records

Accessing county’s payments to a doctor now under arrest for molestation

[…] know about whether it was possible to get records of payments made by all County agencies--including the District Attorney’s office--to a child psychiatrist. The psychiatrist was arrested for molesting hundreds of boys and was under contract to the courts for four decades. We have reason to believe the DA’s office hired him as well, […]

November 12, 2011
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Brown Act

Should school superintendent’s goals be made in closed session?

[…] open session. The goals are public. The evaluation of the City Manager in meeting goals in done in closed session. In contrast, the School Board sets goals for the Superintendent's in closed session. Recently, the new superintendent made her goals available on the District web site. The Board President thanked her in a public […]

April 13, 2012
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CPRA

Accessing Records of Parolees’ Addresses

[…] living. They would not, however, provide me their addresses, saying that it was their department's policy not to. A search of the Public Records Act discloses no exemption for parolee address information. And I would argue that given recidivism rates in the 70-percent range for California prisoners, the public's right to know what parolees […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

City Stonewalls CPRA Request for Sexual Harassment Complaints Against Council Member

I recently submitted a public records act request asking for all complaints filed by city employees against sitting council members. As a local journalist, I got a tip that a council member may have had a number of sexual harassment complaints filed against him. After asking for several extensions, the city responded today. They […]

November 8, 2018
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CPRA

The California Department of Health Services, Ongoing Investigations, and Public Records

[…] get my hands on epidemiological surveys: Basically lists of what people ate before they got sick. These are part of the investigation, but they are also personal medical records. I'm worried they will try to keep all of the investigative records private. Even the lab tests looking at the DNA of the E. coli […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Covered CA contracts exempt from PRA

[…] which the Exchange provides, receives, or arranges services or reimbursement" are exempt from disclosure. Gov’t Code section 100508. It is difficult to say, however, whether this specific exemption would reach the proposals and scorecards that you seek. Unfortunately, there is no case law interpreting this statute as it relates to the PRA. They are probably […]

June 2, 2016
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Brown Act CPRA

Park & Rec “advisory committee” keeping its advice secret

[…] discussion. We do know they met with an individual associated with an individual in a key municipal dispute and discussed withdrawing from litigation. How do we ask for a "list" of this information without asking for it in list form, which CPRA seems to prohibit? 3. If this public member of the committee is […]

August 8, 2011
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CPRA

Personnel Files

[…] over employee privacy seem to have heightened and there seems to be a trend against disclosing information that was once available. In an older opinion analyzing this exemption as it applied to personnel and other files of the San Francisco Bay Board of Pilot Commissioners, the attorney general concluded that the "unwarranted invasion of […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Are Citizen Bond Oversight Committee Applications Public Records?

I submitted a CPRA for completed/submitted applications of Citizen Bond Oversight Committee members, however, the school district denied "the request stating my request for the completed applications are protected from disclosure pursuant to Government Code section 6254(c), disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy." I reviewed the government code and […]

May 15, 2020