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    CPRA

    Is A Letter From A Water District Lawyer A City Attorney Public?

    […] had a contract to deliver water, but wanted to modify it. The District's lawyer wrote a letter to the city attorney, attaching a draft civil complaint, asking for a set of changes, threatening to sue otherwise. "Settlement" meetings were in closed session. Now that a new contract has been agreed to, is the first […]

    December 7, 2018

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    CPRA

    Sheriff refuses access to complaint

    […] matter and am trying to recoup. I have sent the sheriff two letters but he refuses to comply with my request. could you please advise me as what to do now. There was a lot of controversy concerning the case.  I am simply asking for copies of documents that I believe I am entitled to.

    January 10, 2012

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Fire Department employee names

    Would the Names of employees working for a City Fire Department be considered accessible via the Public Records Request? I have a year range from like 1985 to 1987.

    June 14, 2009

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    Newsgathering

    Accessing the black hole of the CIA

    I am a reporter, and I have a question re: FOIA requests for CIA files. Specifically, I would like the employment records of a local mayor who says she was a CIA operative for 31 years.  But I'm worried that if I frame the request the wrong way, it will be denied, because I […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC & Reporters Committee file briefs in Apple v. Samsung secrecy appeal

    […] the unsealing of certain confidential financial records filed under seal by both Apple and Samsung. Also filed Monday: a media amicus brief prepared by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and submitted on behalf of the New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Gannett and others. Together, the two amicus briefs […]

    October 17, 2012

  • Latest News

    Extracting information from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) takes persistence and understanding one’s rights under FOIA

    […] practical limit the Privacy Act places on FOIA disclosures is to prohibit disclosure in circumstances where agencies already have the discretion to withhold records under a FOIA exemption." The Privacy Act, in other words, has no relevance in situations where FOIA requires disclosure, leaving ICE with no discretion in the matter. There are FOIA […]

    June 2, 2009

  • Latest News

    Cases

    Amici Briefs Digest – March 2018

    Here are amicus briefs and/or letters FAC has either authored or joined since Dec. 2018: FAC Authored Amicus Briefs Brazil v. Newark Unified: On February 2, FAC filed an amicus brief that we co-authored with the ACLU in a trial court proceeding.  This was a fairly unusual move for FAC.  We have generally steered clear […]

    March 7, 2018

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA Police Records

    Police refuse to release report on shooting

    The police are refusing to release a report it is doing on a shooting. Many months have passed since the incident. They give no explanation for their actions. What would be the best way to proceed to get them to release the report?

    October 31, 2011

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    FOIA

    Records with the names of citizens and non-citizens

    I want to ask for some guidelines about the law (I am not sure if it is a law or not) that protects the names of illegal immigrants that are convicted in the U.S. of violent crimes. I want to have guidelines about which one is the story here, I want to know why […]

    June 14, 2009