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CPRA

My Request for City Contract with Towing Company Was Never Answered

[…] Records Act to timely respond to PRA requests. If the agency is claiming that certain records are exempt under the Act, it is required to cite the exemption and explain how its applies to the records. Gov’t Code § 6253(c). You can read more about the Public Records Acthere. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP […]

May 16, 2019
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CPRA Police Records

Police Call Logs and Public Records

Are police departments required to provide the "request for service" logs if asked for a specific date? For example, a call for disturbing the peace because of a noisy dog. I assume that gets logged into a database when it is dispatched. Are the addresses of the individuals in violation public information? I noticed […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Improper Noticing of Serial and Special Meetings In Violation of the Brown Act

[…] the Act. Cal. Gov. Code § 54960;McKee v. Orange Unified School District, 110 Cal. App. 4th 1310 (2003). Cal. Gov. Code § 54960.1 sets forth the procedure for nullification of a legislative action taken in violation of the Brown Act. Unfortunately, § 54960.1 provides tight timing requirements on filing such an action, including the […]

March 11, 2020
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CPRA

Accessing public payrolls

I recently filed a public records request for teacher payroll information with the Los Angeles Unified School District. My request was denied on the grounds that it represented an unreasonable invasion of privacy. It's my understanding that public employee payroll documents should not be exempt through the "privacy" clause. A fellow student working with […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Golden Gate Bridge suicide records

I recently made a request to the Golden Gate Bridge and Transportation District for copies of all incident reports from 2006 regarding suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge, attempted suicides, and interrupted suicides. I had made a similar request for the records from 2004 a few years ago and was provided with the documents […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Is A Public Agency Required to Disclose Names of Board Member Applicants?

We are trying to obtain the names of applicants for board vacancies, not the applications themselves or the information they contain, which seems to be covered by the California First Amendment Coalition v. Superior Court (Wilson) 1998. Voters in November authorized the District to turn operation of the hospital over to a nonprofit corporation, […]

February 23, 2018
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FAC Helps Defeat Effort by School District to Recover Nearly $500K in Attorneys Fees From Records Requester

[…] attempt to argue Ms. Brazil had done. FAC and the ACLU were joined in their amicus brief by Californians Aware, the California News Publishers Association, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Los Angeles Times and the McClatchy Company. Here's yesterday’s order And the briefing filed by FAC and the ACLU […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
April 11, 2018
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Blog Cases

New “drone memo” to be released to FAC . . . and other developments in FAC’s legal cases

[…] memo analyzing the legality of the government’s proposed use of force to kill al-Aulaqi, a US citizen who had joined Al Qaeda and taken on operational functions for Al-Qaeda’s operations in Yemen. Al-Aulaqi was subsequently killed in a 2010 drone attack. The disclosure about the second memo was made in a filing in FAC’s […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
July 11, 2014
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CPRA

Strategic question regarding a large PRA request

My non-profit organization intends to request a large number of public records from the California Department of Health Care Services. At this point, our questions are strategic. For example: are we likely to make more progress with a reluctant government agency by a series of requests, none of which is, in itself, unduly burdensome? Or are […]

September 6, 2016
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CPRA

The CPRA…

[…] has been denied, within 10 days. (Gov't Code § 6253). If the written request is denied, the agency is obligated to back its denial by citing an exemption in the PRA or other state or federal law allowing it to withhold the records you seek. (Gov't code § 6255). It is not clear whether […]

June 14, 2009