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    CPRA

    Can I publish public records? Confidential records of public importance?

    Can I upload court and legislative abstracts for cases –of which I have been involved- and the corresponding county ordinance and state laws used in these prosecutions, which are publicly accessible? Additionally, I want to upload one settlement agreement that has a confidentiality clause binding the County and the defendant to non-disclosure, a case […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Air Quality District Records

    […] Control Measure) which is currently not being utilized.  The inspector called back and left a message on my answering machine saying testing was done which was negative for asbestos.  However, when I subsequently submitted an information request to the air district, they replied that they had no such records.  I later spoke with the […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Court Records

    Accessing juvenile court records

    Generally speaking, juvenile court records are confidential except as to certain law enforcement and court personnel, or the parents and guardian of the minor. Other persons can get access to documents only with permission of the court. You would have to file a petition to do this. You haven't disclosed your relationship to the records […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Accessing complaints to public agencies

    […] California's Public Records Act, the public has a right to inspect and obtain copies of documents collected or maintained by state or local agencies unless a particular exemption of the PRA or other law authorizes the agency to withhold the record.  The PRA requires agencies to provide the documents requested or notify the requester […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Access to names of applicants to official positions

    The City Council will soon be considering the applications filed for three openings on two commissions. I am trying to obtain the names of the applicants and I am being met with some resistance. Should I have access to the names?

    June 14, 2009

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    Court Records

    Obtaining records of traffic citations

    […] 4 different agencies issue traffic citations in San Diego. These citations are then fed into the computers at the traffic courts.I would like to obtain weekly records from the traffic courts, containing details of all the citations issued during the previous fortnight.How could I go about ensuring that I can obtain this information in California?

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Powers that be ignored CPRA request. What should I do next?

    […] within 10 days of receipt of the request, and making copies of records available promptly thereafter.  Gov’t Code § 6253(c). If the agency is claiming that an exemption applies to any of the records you are seeking, it must let you know what the exemption is, and exactly how it applies to those records.  […]

    May 11, 2015

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    CPRA First Amendment Police Records

    CPRA has time limits on public document’s is availability?

    […] to disclosure. To support this denial, they cited the case of County of Los Angeles v. Superior Court (Kusar), 1993, 18 Cal App. 4th, 588. Please let me know if the police department's rationale for denying my request is legitimate. It's my understanding that public-information requests are not time sensitive, but perhaps there's something I don't know.

    March 30, 2015

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    CPRA

    Are blueprints of public buildings public under the CPRA?

    […] I must have a letter from the entity that drew the plans and the owner of the building in order to do anything other than view them live. According to everything I have read, I have the right to take pictures or request copies ( for a fee, of course) without that letter. Can you help?

    May 20, 2015

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    CPRA

    Strategic question regarding a large PRA request

    My non-profit organization intends to request a large number of public records from the California Department of Health Care Services. At this point, our questions are strategic. For example: are we likely to make more progress with a reluctant government agency by a series of requests, none of which is, in itself, unduly burdensome? Or are […]

    September 6, 2016