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California Driver’s License Numbers and the CPRA

California Driver’s License Numbers and the CPRA Q: Must a public agency provide driver’s licenses of business owners it licenses? Can or must the public agency redact any of the information like the actual CDL number? A: As you may know, California’s Public Records Act provides that all documents created, owned, or maintained by a public agency are presumptively available for public inspection unless one of the PRA’s exemptions applies.  Govt. Code § 6253(a).  One

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Accessing a public employee’s resume

Accessing a public employee’s resume Q: A California state university employee committed resume fraud in securing job appointment. The chancellor’s HR office conducted an investigation and concluded the employee was guilty.  We heard rumors that the employee was disciplined by the university.  My questions are: 1. Is the disciplinary action on the employee by the university public record? 2. Is the employee’s resume public record? 3. Is the conclusion of chancellor’s investigation public record? If

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Accessing Information from ICE

Accessing Information from ICE Q: Local reporters have complained that they have been unable to get basic information from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following ICE\’s recent raids targeting immigration fugitives in northern California. In reporting on raids in which scores of people are arrested and removed from their communities, reporters say that ICE declines to state: how many people have been arrested; who has been arrested; where they have been taken, etc. I’ve

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Private information in the public record

Private information in the public record Q: The State of CA Medical Licensing Board has published my private medical info on their License Verification web site. Based upon the premise that under the Public Records Act, my license is a Public Document that the public is entitled to see.  They claim they are required to tell the Public their justification for giving me a Probationary License. My stand is that while the status of my

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School employee discipline and hiring records

School employee discipline and hiring records Q: We have two issues involving public records access: We requested records, including e-mails and memos, from the school district that discuss possible discipline of the financial services director. The district turned down the request. 2. We’d like to know if it is possible to find out why a city finance director was fired recently. Are those personnel records protected by a constitutional or statutory right to privacy or

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