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2007 Open Government Legislative Roundup: Some successes and some failures

[…] state Supreme Court decision in Copley Press v. Superior Court, which effectively sealed all police disciplinary records. The major success was legislation creating more oversight and accountability for the UC Regents’ and CSU Trustees’ executive pay committees. Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Senator Gloria Romero (D-Santa Monica) introduced AB 1393 and SB 1019, […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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California First Amendment Coalition to Tell Congressional Commission that China’s Internet Censorship Violates WTO Treaties

[…] by U.S. technology companies in internet censorship, and the application of WTO treaties to the "Great Firewall," as China's censorship system has come to be known. Testifying for CFAC is Gilbert Kaplan, a trade law expert in Washington, who represents CFAC in its WTO initiative. In briefings to the US Trade Representative (USTR), the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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FAC, ACLU Oppose Temecula School Board’s Attempt to Throw Out Public Interest Lawsuit

[…] in Mae M. v. Komrosky, a case challenging Temecula Valley Unified School Board policies that ban the teaching of "Critical Race Theory and other similar frameworks" and force teachers to out transgender and gender nonconforming students. After the case was filed, the school board filed an anti-SLAPP motion. SLAPP suits, or "Strategic Litigation Against […]
- Free Expression
January 18, 2024
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The CPRA and court records

[…] seek to access).Nevertheless, you could request the transcript of the California Supreme Court proceedings on the grounds that they are court records that must be made available for inspection and copying by the public under the First Amendment and California law.Your submission does not state whether the proceedings were criminal or civil in nature. […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

What’s the law regarding destruction of public records?

[…] body or of a city board or commission. This section shall not be construed as limiting or qualifying in any manner the authority provided in Section 34090.5 for the destruction of records, documents, instruments, books and papers in accordance with the procedure therein prescribed. Gov't Code Section 34090. Effective January 2010, however, "the legislative […]

July 20, 2010
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Fees for “compiling” digital documents at UC?

[…] am trying to obtain public records at my university which are stored in electronic format. I have been told that I will be charged $.20 per page for the electronic record and, upon inquiring about this fee have been referred to the following policy by the California State University: Public Records Act? The records […]

May 15, 2012
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How does the CPRA deal with emails between elected officials

[…] one district official to officials in other districts, that concern the public's business, and that are retained in electronic or paper form, must be disclosed (unless some exemption applies). If the elected official here was using his personal computer to send emails on his government-issued email account, it probably would not matter on which […]

August 21, 2010
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CPRA

Individual accessing results on their own background check

[…] review your application materials (if you kept a copy of them) to verify whether a waiver was made.In addition, in your next communication with the law enforcement agencies you might also want to ask them for the legal authority on which they base their denial.That might enable you to evaluate whether the denial is lawful.

June 14, 2009
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Entitlement to court records

[…] get court records from the Richmond court. When I asked to get the records from my case the clerk said that I could not get any records until I put in my appeal. I also tried to put in a written declaration form and was told that it was too late. Can you help me?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA and copyright

[…] publisher in that case). We are not aware of controlling caselaw on this point in California, and the Attorney General opinion does not directly address it. Assuming, for the moment, that the California (or 9th Circuit federal) courts were to follow the less favorable opinion, County of Suffolk, you could still argue that the […]

June 14, 2009