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    CPRA

    Can fees be charged for existing electronic/digital records?

    The County's Public Safety Group sent me an invoice in regards to my PRA request for copies of their three existing contracts with Cal Fire. These records already exist in an electronic/ digital format. There is no reason to charge me a fee for them to be delivered to me via email. They just […]

    August 30, 2016

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    CPRA

    Who can request documents under the CPRA?

    […] it can be more efficient to use those forms, since they are more familiar to the agency personnel processing the requests. Bryan Cave LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues […]

    September 19, 2012

  • Latest News

    Blog Cases

    Most Wanted Secret Doc: Justice Dept Memo Analyzing Drone Strikes Against Suspected Terrorists

    […] Congress (all of whom were denied access). The memo is also sought in three FOIA lawsuits filed separately by the First Amendment Coalition (the organization I work for) in federal court in San Francisco, and by the New York Times and the ACLU in federal court in Manhattan. The Justice Department claims the very […]

    August 27, 2012

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA School Records

    Request for public information not honored

    I made a request for public information four months ago from my local school district and I have not received the requested information. Please advise.

    April 28, 2016

  • Latest News

    Blog

    SacBee calls for more transparency in compensation agreements with public employee unions

    […] local government labor contract negotiations. You can understand the logic and the urgency behind his idea when you consider the situation in Vallejo. That city is filing for bankruptcy. Why? Local officials approved salary and benefits costs for current employees and retirees that are more than the city can afford. Scheer's point is that […]

    June 2, 2009

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    Blog

    Free the Hewlett-Packard 5!

    […] California Attorney General Bill Lockyer wasted no time in filing criminal charges against former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, H-P's senior legal counsel and three outside security consultants for alleged crimes committed in the course of an over-zealous effort to plug leaks in the H-P boardroom. Lockyer's haste has nothing to do with the urgency […]

    June 2, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Can CA Alcoholic Beverage Control withhold documents?

    I have tried for over a year to get certain documents from the California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to no avail. I have a lot of backstory and email exchanges. I also have a lot of experience through activism and advocacy regarding their policies and am asking relatively clear questions and requesting data I […]

    September 15, 2014

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Fights Unprecedented Effort by School District to Recover Nearly $500K From Records Requester

    […] to learn about their government. Newark Unified has asked the Alameda County Superior Court in California to order Elizabeth Brazil to pay the school district $449, 317.60 for time the district’s attorneys spent litigating Brazil’s effort to obtain records under the California Public Records Act. If the school district were to prevail on this […]

    February 6, 2018

  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment Newsgathering

    City Won’t Add Us to E-mail List

    […] addition, differences in the manner in which the information is provided may also be unconstitutional.  Unconstitutional discriminatory treatment of the media can arise in many other situations. For example, courts have found violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection clause where a mayor excluded a particular reporter from press conferences to which […]

    February 8, 2018

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    FAC News Press Release

    Mel Opotowsky, 1931-2024

    […] the age of 92. We join his family, friends and many colleagues in mourning this loss, which leaves a big hole at FAC, where Mel fought passionately for the causes close to his (and our) heart – free expression, a free press, and the people’s right to know. Mel served on FAC’s board of […]

    April 26, 2024