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CPRA Police Records

Accessing Police Reports on Investigations

[…] public entities are presumed to be public unless one of the Act's enumerated exceptions to disclosure applies. Government Code section 6254(f) sets forth the so-called "law enforcement" exemption, which allows law enforcement agencies (such as a city police department) to withhold, among other things, records of complaints and investigatory records. This exemption does not, […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Police Records

Accessing Police Reports

[…] Act, the public has a presumptive right of access to records maintained by government agencies, and may inspect or copy those records unless one of the Act's exemptions applies. One of those exemptions, found at Government Code section 6254(f), relates to police reports. In a case called Williams v. Superior Court, 5 Cal. 4th […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Accessing Field Interrogation Cards

I work for a law enforcement agency. I have been requested by a property management security company to search our database for all events and contacts pertaining to an individual who is a transient and a nuisance to their complex. The security company is in the process of obtaining a "Stay Away Order" and […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Accessing bids for public contracts

I have submitted a request for public records to an irrigation district, consisting of several documents but most importantly a copy of a publicly read proposal turned in my another contractor. The irrigation district’s general counsel refused the request and quoted Times Mirror v. Superior Court. Public bids are read aloud at the time of […]

June 14, 2009
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Court Records

Accessing adoption records

[…] report to the court from any investigating agency, or power of attorney or deposition or any portion of any of these documents, except in exceptional circumstances and for good cause approaching the necessitous. The petitioner may be required to pay the expenses for preparing the copies of the documents to be inspected. (b) Upon […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Access to agenda attachments

[…] the meeting under Government section 54954.2(a)), or when it is distributed to a majority of the legislative body, whichever is first. The agency may charge a fee for mailing the materials, not to exceed the cost of providing the mailing service.Government Code Section 54954.1 provides as follows:Any person may request that a copy of […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Pending Workman compensation claims

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

University of California Press

[…] records you seek. A sample PRA request letter can be found on the CFAC website at the following link: https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/cpra-primer/sample-cpra-request-letter/. UC Press must respond in writing, inform you if the records still exist and if so must either provide you a copy or explain which exemption it believes allows UC Press to withhold the records.

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Information on Running for City Clerk

My wife and I are trying to gather information on running for City Clerk in our town. She did a Public Records Request and wrote: "I would like to request when term is up for City Clerk elected position and all city laws that apply to run for City Clerk elected position." The city […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Closed sessions…

[…] allows legislative bodies to hold closed sessions to discuss pending litigation when discussion in open session would prejudice the public agency. The purpose of the pending litigation exemption is to protect confidential attorney-client communications and allow a legislative body to meet with its attorney to receive legal advice and make legal decisions; if the […]

June 14, 2009