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    A stunning end to the media’s 20-year losing streak in high court access cases.

    Watershed CA Supreme Court decision is major win for government transparency By Peter Scheer America's highest courts are justly criticized for avoiding hard issues. The judicial fetish for deciding cases on the narrowest possible grounds yields opinions so limited and unambitious in scope that they often raise more questions, and generate more legal disputes, […]

    June 3, 2009

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    CPRA

    Should I be able to get meta data of emails and calendars under the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance or Public Records Act?

    […] the regular Public Records Act, and a violation of both laws’ requirement that records be provided in the format they are held (if so requested) and that exemptions be justified. Should I be able to get San Francisco public agencies and/or California public agencies in general to provide me emails in the native electronic […]

    April 1, 2021

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    CPRA FOIA Police Records

    Online arrest records no longer show violations

    […] agencies may argue that sections 6254(f)(1) and (2) only require them to provide arrestee and incident information on a daily basis, as opposed to responding to requests for specific arrestee information. However, in amending the Public Records Act in 1982 to include the requirement that arrestee information be released, as well as incident reports, […]

    November 17, 2009

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    CPRA

    Charged a fee for viewing documents? Is that legal?

    […] record, except as hereafter provided. Gov't Code § 6253(a).Public agencies may charge a fee "covering direct costs of duplication" (or a statutory fee).Gov't Code § 6253(b). As for charging the public for the right to merely inspect records, the agency may be on shaky ground.By its own terms, the PRA does not seem to […]

    May 4, 2011

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    CPRA

    What rules must agencies follow when redacting public documents?

    […] May the public demand access to records and use their own equipment to reproduce or image (e.g. camera, scanner) the records? May an agency charge a fee for access to records if no copy/reproduction is requested yet the agency must or chooses to redact some information from the responsive record(s)? If the public must […]

    March 21, 2012

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    CPRA

    Emails as public records

    […] they are from an attorney for the agency and/or relate to pending litigation. (See Government Code §§ 6254(b) and 6254(k).)However, your inquiry suggests that a different potential exemption might be invoked.Public agencies frequently refuse to disclose e-mails, asserting a "deliberative process privilege," pursuant to Government Code section 6255.The California Courts have recognized that this […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    CPRA fees and information in electronic form

    Responding to a request for copies of all messages, emails from council members laptops to each other, especially during the periods of council meetings for the last two months, the city has responded thusly:Pursuant to the California Public Records Act Government Code 6253.9 b. 2 the following fees are associated with fulfilling your request: […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Accessing public payrolls

    I recently filed a public records request for teacher payroll information with the Los Angeles Unified School District. My request was denied on the grounds that it represented an unreasonable invasion of privacy. It's my understanding that public employee payroll documents should not be exempt through the "privacy" clause. A fellow student working with […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Request denied for fire district celebration guest list

    […] not something normally kept on file, any factual sections of the report, and perhaps its observations and analysis, would typically not be precluded from disclosure under this exemption. Citizens for a Better Environment v. Department of Food Agriculture, 171 Cal. App. 3d 704 (1985). Note that the case also said that even if documents […]

    August 16, 2013