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Brown Act CPRA

Community College Senate, Listservs, and Public Record

[…] faculty have the right to privacy in these issues? There is a "listserv" among the faculty that was started a few years ago to be a forum for open communication between professional colleagues relating to academic and pedagogical issues surrounding the faculty. Currently, around 80 faculty out of the 400 employed are subscribed to […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Closed Sessions under the Brown Act

The Situation: the Board of Education for a local district meets in closed session without any prior notification to the public. It makes a personnel decision during that closed session and announces it to the public. Question: Is the unannounced closed session meeting in accordance with Brown Act or any other law? If not, […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Closed meeting votes and the Brown Act

Under the Brown Act, can a sitting city council conduct a secret vote (no public notification) whether to consider a legally filed candidate for a city commission appointment, and then, refuse to make public how each council member voted or how the tally went when they do appoint candidates to a commission?

June 14, 2009
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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