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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
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CPRA

Are jail visitor sign-in logs public documents?

[…] Records Act, which provides, generally speaking, that writings created or used by government agencies in California are presumptively open to public inspection and copying unless a specific exemption of the PRA applies. If the "no" you refer to was in response to your request under the PRA, then the agency should have given you […]

November 17, 2009
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CPRA

How can my records request meet deadline if staff assigned is on vacation?

I made a Public Records Request and received confirmation, but the attorney wrote that my request for is too complex to release now. I sent a reply and learned that the attorney left on vacation for a week. I don't think there's an I'm-on-vacation exception in the CPRA. What do I do now?

September 11, 2015
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CPRA School Records

Public official’s email communications

[…] exemptions under the Public Records Act, they must be disclosed. Cal. Gov't Code section 6253(a). Even if portions of the emails are properly withheld pursuant to an exemption, the remainder of the emails must be disclosed because any reasonably segregable portion of a record must be made available for inspection after deletion of the […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Online Sheriff’s Blotter

Although California's Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to provide access to most records created, used, or maintained by the agencies, there are broad exemptions for records related to law enforcement. Govt. Code Section 6254(f) (see below). But this section of the PRA provides that "state and local law enforcement agencies shall […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Obligation to stated agenda

[…] Section 6253.5, 6254, 6254.7, or 6254.22. (b) Writings that are public records under subdivision (a) and that are distributed during a public meeting shall be made available for public inspection at the meeting if prepared by the local agency or a member of its legislative body, or after the meeting if prepared by some […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Missing Records from Request

[…] Economic Council. They didn't want to share information that would be of "us" to me, so they left out many pages that were the most important ones for me to see. They claimed that they showed me the final document, when in fact, at least 80- pages that were not proprietary were excluded. I […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Golden Gate Bridge suicide records

I recently made a request to the Golden Gate Bridge and Transportation District for copies of all incident reports from 2006 regarding suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge, attempted suicides, and interrupted suicides. I had made a similar request for the records from 2004 a few years ago and was provided with the documents […]

June 14, 2009