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    Government officials should listen to voters instead of lawyers selling strategies for blocking access to information

    […] into government's DNA. But some efforts to withhold information are more dangerous to democracy than others. The most dangerous are government lying (about the existence of documents, for example), particularly in circumstances where officials lie with impunity. Almost as dangerous, but less obviously so, are situations in which government agencies restructure the way they […]

    March 24, 2014

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    CPRA

    CPRA and copyright

    […] publisher in that case). We are not aware of controlling caselaw on this point in California, and the Attorney General opinion does not directly address it. Assuming, for the moment, that the California (or 9th Circuit federal) courts were to follow the less favorable opinion, County of Suffolk, you could still argue that the […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Does city’s “fee schedule” for public records violate CPRA?

    A media partner of ours reported that a municipality has adopted a "schedule of charges" for public records requests. The board voted that there will be a $25 administrative fee per request. The number of pages requested will generate additional fees. The first 10 pages of records will cost $1 per page and each […]

    June 24, 2010

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    CPRA

    Requests for applications of public positions

    […] Cal. App. 4th 1136 (1997) and California First Amendment Coalition v. Superior Court, 67 Cal. App. 4th 159 (1998).  Both cases involved applications submitted to the Governor for appointment to vacancies on county boards of supervisors.  In both cases, the court of appeal held, for a variety of reasons, that the applications were exempt […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Public Universities, Listservs, and Destruction of Records

    […] entries in its online volunteer listserv from appearing in the newspaper. Because I believe the taxpayer-funded listserv content is a public document, I filed a PRA request for one day’s worth of postings. The university has replied that it keeps no copies of the listserv postings, and cannot provide them. They seem to have […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Google’s Antitrust Wrist Slap Is Right Result for Wrong Reason. Right Reason: Google Search Results are Protected Speech

    […] relative to other search results, and the presentation generally of website pages responsive to a search -- these choices constitute editorial functions, subject to the strongest safeguards for free speech. The New York Times (or The Huffington Post, Wired.com or other reputable news organization of your choice) gets to decide -- free from government […]

    January 7, 2013

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Going after omitted information

    What are my options for going after emails we believe were omitted from a public records request?

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Blanket Denial of CPRA Requests from Law Enforcement Agency

    […] the record requests that were denied, you may want to consider writing a follow up letter to the agency asking why the records were denied and which exemptions to the CPRA, if any, it invoked to prevent disclosure of those documents.  Gov’t Code § 6253(c). You may also wish to remind the agency that […]

    May 16, 2018