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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
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Court Records CPRA First Amendment FOIA

Appellate Case Court Records

I made an FOIA request to the appellate court for list of cases (included those unpublished) filed for appeal relating to two Superior Court judges for the past 5 years.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

June 14, 2009
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Press Release

FAC Prevails in Effort to Force CA Attorney General to Disclose Police Misconduct Files

A San Francisco judge today ordered California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to begin disclosing police-misconduct files sought by the First Amendment Coalition (FAC)—a victory for government transparency against one of the few remaining police agencies in the state to refuse to comply with Senate Bill 1421, California’s new landmark police transparency bill that went […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
May 17, 2019
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CPRA

The CPRA and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance

[…] people contact their government. What about fax machine call logs? Also is there a concept of private vs official or business email addresses - is it different for citizens than public officials? Lastly, what about email server logs showing when an email was processed? What about whistleblowers - should they be told to use […]

June 14, 2009
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Consumers blindsided by secret settlements in hi-tech patent lawsuits

[…] the right to petition, that right has never been seen as requiring confidentiality in communications with government. Auburn's email policy would be improved by either removing this exemption or, as a compromise, requiring disclosure of council members' communications with persons or firms having business before the City Council. The San Jose and Auburn policies […]

December 23, 2012
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CPRA

Does “Deliberative Process Privilege” Allow California governor to Withhold Communications Relating to Voter-Mandated Study?

[…] the Governor and his administration." Despite the requested communications only pertain to the mandated nonprofit feasibility study. The Governor's legal team has not responded to a request for an explanation of how the public interest in nondisclosure of the requested information outweighs the public interest in disclosure. I am currently trying to figure out […]

March 13, 2020
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Brown Act CPRA

City Attorney says legal analysis is a CPRA exemption

[…] a PRA request for any legal analysis of the proposal. The City Attorney replied the legal analysis is attorney client privileged communication and is therefore a CPRA exemption. However, City Attorney also stated the document has not been the subject of an open or closed session of City Council. Can City Attorney distribute such […]

June 10, 2013
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Brown Act CPRA

CPRA request was denied for document discussed in open session

[…] victim of alleged sexual molestation by a county physician, the supervisors discussed corrective action the county would take in response to the lawsuit. However when I asked for a copy of the Corrective Action Plan document, which is sometime posted with the settlement information, I was told the document was "confidential." I immediately filed […]

January 14, 2016
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Cases Press Release

FAC Obtains Clemency Records in 6 California Cases After Challenging Secret Docket

FAC’s year-long campaign for transparency in a key aspect of California’s criminal justice process has resulted in the release of previously sealed records in six clemency cases — records FAC is now making public. FAC obtained the records after securing a series of rulings from the California Supreme Court rejecting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
December 23, 2019
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FOIA Social Media

Advice on How to Request An Agency’s “Unlisted” YouTube Videos

[…] particular agency has posted, however I am not sure how to request that in a way which will get me what I want. Specifically, if I ask for a list of URLs for videos that the agency has posted to YouTube as "unlisted" it may be a reasonable response that such a list does […]

April 6, 2018