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CPRA Newsgathering

Autopsy records of a public official

[…] report. Hepatitis A or B can be contracted from any number of sources, including homosexual sex, intravenous drug use, blood transfusions, etc. I thought the right of privacy under this exemption goes away when the individual dies. True? In your opinion, is this a case the media would likely win if we went to court?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA FOIA

Construction inspectors’ addresses omitted from CPRA response

[…] 332, 345 (1984) (standard for weighing whether nondisclosure is proper under § 6254(c) is almost the same as the standard contained in the Public Record Act's catch-all exemption). Moreover, courts have found that the when the information pertains to a governmental employee or contractor, the more authority the governmental actor has, the more reduced […]

July 18, 2013
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CPRA

UC student grades and the CPRA

[…] of the particular case the public interest served by not disclosing the record clearly outweighs the public interest served by disclosure of the record."There is no express exemption in the PRA for records constituting student grades but under the provisions of Section 6254(c) and 6255, the University of California may decline to provide access […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Records involving peace officers

[…] during his entire employ at the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.2) List of training sessions Lt. [X} has attended since January 1, 2000 - including curriculum overview for any trainings having to do with conduct and ethics relating to civilians (the public), inmate family members and inmate visitors.The Litigation Coordinator said that these two […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Accessing public records on mental health workers

[…] Public Records Act, Govt Code section 6250 et seq., although generally requiring that the public have access to all records of state and local government, contains numerous exemptions. Among these exemptions is Govt Code section 6254(c) which permits an agency to withhold "personnel, medical and similar files," the disclosure of which would constitute and […]

June 11, 2013
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FOIA

Foreign Officials, Detention, Privacy, and the Freedom of Information Act

A former Philippine official, who is wanted in the Philippines for corruption charges, is detained at an immigration holding center in California -- reportedly for violation of immigration law. (It was reported that the official’s visa was revoked by the State Department.) The Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the State Department have refused to […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA School Records

Accessing a public employee’s resume

[…] awards, pervious positions and publications . . . is routinely presented in professional and social settings, is relatively innocuous and implicates no applicable privacy or public policy exemption." Id. at 794. http://login.findlaw.com/scripts/callaw?dest=ca/calapp3d/134/788.html With respect to disciplinary records of public employees, California courts have held that there is a strong public policy against disclosure of […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Access to rezoning information

Our local school district here in decided that they want to rezone school boundaries. The district went ahead and formed a committee to make boundary recommendations. The committee members were chosen by invitation only, without any notice to the public at large. We (myself, and other members of the community) recently learnt that all […]

June 14, 2009
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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
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CPRA

Can we submit a Public Records Act request for a California elected official’s personal emails, text messages?

[…] to the CPRA still apply to information contained in personal accounts, such as the exemptions for certain personal financial data, personnel and medical files, and the "catch-all" exemption of Cal. Gov. Code § 6255(a). In any event, any messages in the city council member’s accounts that substantively pertain to the public’s business (and are […]

July 30, 2020