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  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Counsel for a school board

    I am reporter and seeking advice about what I can do to request information from our local school district. Recently our school board hired a lawyer to formulate legal opinion about a particular school board policy. The opinion is in, but they refuse to share the information, citing attorney-client privilege. Is there any way […]

    June 14, 2009

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    FAC Succeeds in Unsealing Search Warrant Executed on SF Journalist Bryan Carmody

    […] result of a motion filed by the First Amendment Coalition along with two press-advocacy groups, requires the San Francisco Police Department to release, by Tuesday, their application for a search warrant used to secretly collect information from Carmody’s phone. The search warrant application will show what if anything police told Judge Rochelle East about […]

    July 19, 2019

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    Public Citizen and CFAC seek to overturn court orders shuttering wikileaks.org

    […] by (among others), the Los Angeles Times, Hearst Corporation (publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle), Gannett Co., Inc., the Associated Press, E.W. Scripps Co., the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Citizen Media Law Project. Many of the documents posted on Wikileaks are aimed at exposing unethical behavior in governments and corporations […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Police Records

    Want Info on 911 Call that Prompted Police to Swarm My House Where No Crime Occurred

    […] Florida’s public records act as I am with California’s, a quick review of the law indicates that police records are generally subject to public disclosure unless some exemption applies. Section 119.105 states that "Police records are public records except as otherwise made exempt or confidential." In responding to your request, it seems the agency […]

    December 4, 2018

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    CPRA

    Agency won’t provide records in electronic format

    In response to our public records request for electronic data, public agencies have refused to release data in Excel format. They have instead given us pdfs or hard copies. Their reasons are vague, ranging from concerns we will manipulate the data to saying it's not their policy to release data in that format. I […]

    August 18, 2010

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    Blog

    Leading gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown need to show voters, by their own actions, that they are committed to transparency in government. Promises won’t cut it.

    […] are closed off for only 12 years). Brown's pledge of government transparency can't be taken seriously as long as he continues to invoke the Public Records Act's exemption for his gubernatorial records--records which were public while he was governor, which were  paid for by taxpayers, and which are now more than 27 years old. […]

    March 9, 2010

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    CPRA

    Access to government officials’ email on personal account

    […] home address or personal e-mail account to conduct public business.Under the PRA,there would be a strong argument that such correspondence would be subject to disclosure, unless an exemption applies. Under the PRA, "any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public's business prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state or local […]

    June 8, 2009

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Seeks to Unseal Gov. Brown’s Request to Pardon Embattled Former State Senator

    […] that leaves citizens in the dark about a matter of important public concern. The records currently hidden from public view would show the factual and legal basis for Governor Brown’s effort to essentially erase the conviction of a public figure. They would also shed light on an otherwise opaque process—of particular interest for this […]

    November 20, 2018

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Brown Act violation involving resignations

    […] from disclosure. Although personnel information is generally exempt when a public agency believes a request seeks information pertaining to a public official’s private or controversial information, this exemption was created to protect intimate personal details, not official business judgments.  See Bakersfield City School Dist. v. Superior Court, 118 Cal. App. 4th 1041, 1045 (2004).  […]

    April 4, 2016