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Court Records

Guardian access to juvenile case files

[…] or guardians of the juvenile who was the subject of the juvenile proceedings are entitled to access the juvenile case file.No court order is needed in order for the parents or guardians to access the case file.The mother referenced in your query below can go to the Superior Court in which the proceedings were […]

June 14, 2009
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Court Records

Accessing Court Records and List of Cases

Made FOIA request to the appellate court for list of cases (included those unpublished) filed for appeal relating to 2 Superior Court judges for past 5 years. Response was a letter stating they didn’t have any cases on file for me. There is, in fact a case on file but not what I asked […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Police Records

How can I gain access to my UC police records?

I am seeking to obtain my records from the University of CA. (1) I received the following response to my request for supplemental records to two police reports. An attorney who specializes in FOIA requests advised that the following language may not constitute a legitimate denial to my records requests. He advised me to […]

September 19, 2013
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CPRA

Can cities withhold public access to calendars?

[…] trying to push it through. We figured this out via a PRA request and subsequently I've been making several PRAs - I received a response today and asked for access to the City's calendars. Without providing any description as to why, they exempted access to calendars under Govt Code 6255 and Times Mirror Case. Is the […]

March 18, 2016
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Press Release

FAC Forces Disclosure of CA Gov. Brown’s Request to Pardon Former State Sen. Wright

[…] 18, requiring the Governor to make legal arguments as to why the Wright file should be confidential--and to publicly file any documents that had no legal basis for sealing. Gov. Brown’s office did so yesterday, and included in its public filing numerous previously undisclosed records, including correspondence between the Governor’s office and the Board […]
- Public Records
January 4, 2019
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Cases Press Release

FAC sues Palm Springs water agencies for data on water use by corporate customers

[…] unless the local agency determines "that the public interest in disclosure of the information clearly outweighs the public interest in nondisclosure." FAC contends that the section 6254.16 exemption applies only to residential customers, not corporate, commercial or other large institutional customers of water agencies. FAC also argues that the public interest clearly favors disclosure […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
August 16, 2014
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Cases

Amici Briefs Digest – Sept. 2018

[…] of the website antiwar.com. Our amicus brief argues, in essence, that the lower court’s ruling would open the door to the FBI broadly collecting information about journalists for the mere act of publishing -- just the kind of surveillance prohibited under the Privacy Act. FAC was represented here by Cooley LLP. FAC Joined Amici […]
- Free Expression
- Press Freedom
September 20, 2018
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CPRA

Public Officials’ Personal Email

[…] city council member's use of his/her personal email account to discuss city business make that account subject to Public Records Act Requests? If so, is there a threshold between a single or several incidental uses and the systematic use of the personal email for city business that would trigger the account's exposure to such requests?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Drafts and Public Record

My city is reviewing and commenting on a Draft EIR for a large project they are undertaking. They have been getting drafts and commenting on it and then returning the comments to the consultant who presumably is editing the EIR in response to the comments. Are the Drafts of the EIR public records that […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act CPRA

Redaction of investigative report

The Brown Act governs access to meetings and provides exemptions for when meetings may be held in closed session. Unfortunately there is no section of the Brown Act that requires a government body such as the city council to meet for discussion regarding a particular topic. The Public Record Act governs which government records […]

August 12, 2014