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First Amendment

Brown vetoes bill limiting cellphone searches by police

[…] recent California Supreme Court decision allowing warrantless searches of cellphones. Interpreting federal law, the Court ruled that in a search "incident to arrest," police can treat the files on a suspect's cellphone the same as the contents of his pockets or a cigarette pack in his possession. But that reasoning, of course, ignores the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 11, 2011
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Regulators analyzing MediaNews’ acquisition…

[…] San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Monterey Herald, and 30 Bay Area weekly newspapers, is paying a 20% premium over the price that McClatchy paid Knight-Ridder for these same publications less than two months ago. Antitrust regulators in the U.S. Justice Department, who must decide whether to go to court to try to […]

June 2, 2009
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CPRA

County Silent In When It Will Fulfill My Request For 911 Calls Received During A Major Wildfire

On May 2 I submitted a request to the County Fire Department (Risk Management Division) for 90 individual 911 calls during a major wildfire. I selected the calls from a 200+ page document that the Risk Management people provided to me, in the format that was requested by them. I have followed up a […]

April 9, 2020
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First Amendment

Defamation and libel in statements to elected officials

[…] in the initiation of any governmental proceeding (such as a city council meeting), such as a city council meeting, is absolutely privileged and cannot form the basis for a lawsuit. See, e.g., Cayley v. Nunn, 190 Cal. App. 3d 300, 303 (1987) ("the privilege ... applies to local city council proceedings."); Scott v. McDonnell […]

June 14, 2009
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FAC Demands Investigation, Return of Equipment After Photojournalist Arrested

[…] cover the arrest and seizurehere,here, andhere. The joint letter to Marin County District Attorney Lori Frugoli, Sausalito Mayor Jill Hoffman, and Sausalito Police Chief John Rohrbacher asks for the immediate return of Portje’s photo and other equipment to him and defends the media’s right to film in public places. The organizations also ask that […]
- Press Freedom
December 8, 2021
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CPRA

City avoiding disclosure of personal email

[…] press to have received email regarding a particular issue. Our PRA requesting those email have been rejected by the city because they do not have email accounts for council members. However on the city website the link to contact council members is the council member’s personal email account. If the city is listing the […]

January 13, 2012
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California First Amendment Coalition to Tell Congressional Commission that China’s Internet Censorship Violates WTO Treaties

[…] by U.S. technology companies in internet censorship, and the application of WTO treaties to the "Great Firewall," as China's censorship system has come to be known. Testifying for CFAC is Gilbert Kaplan, a trade law expert in Washington, who represents CFAC in its WTO initiative. In briefings to the US Trade Representative (USTR), the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Court Records

Child Services Court Records

I would like to know how can I obtain records for a previous case through Child services for my records and for court records for a case pertaining to child custody.

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Tape recording closed sessions

As an elected Trustee for a local school district, may I record closed session for my personal use (note taking)? These would not be permanent records as I would reuse the tape for the next recording.

June 14, 2009
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First Amendment

Changing search warrant policy

[…] search warrant policy where the affiants or other law enforcement officer who is filing the search warrant redacts information from the warrant in order to reduce the work of the exhausted and overworked court clerks. Items redacted include vehicles searched, addresses searched, and persons being searched. The clerk’s office has the redacted files for viewing.

June 14, 2009