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CPRA

CPRA ten-day deadline for request responses: Is that business days or calendar days?

Regarding the CPRA's mandate that an agency must respond to a request within 10 days, FAC and other groups claim this means calendar days, not working days. Is there some compelling basis for this belief?

September 16, 2015
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Cases Press Release

FAC Suit Against San Diego DA Forces Disclosure of Employee Misconduct Records

[…] important principle under the California Public Records Act — that public agencies must produce actual records in their files. The district attorney insisted that it was sufficient for the agency to release tailored summaries of records, while withholding the records themselves. "From inception, this lawsuit was as much about a legal principle as the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
October 21, 2019
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Short Takes: government email, historical police records, fee awards against requesters

BY PETER SCHEER--Despite the dysfunction in Washington, Congress occasionally surprises with a modest piece of legislation that points the way for California and many other states. So it is with a 2014 Federal Records Act amendment which addresses this question: Suppose a federal employee, using his own personal text or email account, sends a […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
January 21, 2015
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CPRA

Removing Personal Information from Public Record

[…] but I also like to keep my personal life private like those other people who never live in the USA. I have not been residing in USA for almost 10 years now and there's no reason that my public records are out there. I do not owe any debts either. No need to apply […]

June 14, 2009
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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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CPRA

Are oral CPRA requests permitted?

I'm new to public records laws in California, and curious if you can help. What is the requirement in California for initiating that inquiry? Do I need to send a written request, or is a verbal request deemed to have the same weight?

June 14, 2009
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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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CPRA Police Records

Criminal Records and the CPRA

In interviewing individual applicants to provide childcare for my 2 toddlers, it is of utmost importance that I verify whether or not they (and/or the location of the premises used for such services) has been involved with any law enforcement issues (ie: is there any criminal history? Has law enforcement ever been called out […]

June 14, 2009
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Advocacy Press Release

Groups Urge Mendocino County to Repeal Unlawful Public Records Fee Ordinance

Letter urges county officials to stop unlawful practice of charging high fees to respond to California Public Records Act requests FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 27, 2023 Contact: fac@firstamendmentcoalition.org The First Amendment Coalition and ACLU of Northern California today called on Mendocino County to repeal an unlawful ordinance that imposes high fees on public records […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
April 27, 2023
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CPRA

Information on Running for City Clerk

My wife and I are trying to gather information on running for City Clerk in our town. She did a Public Records Request and wrote: "I would like to request when term is up for City Clerk elected position and all city laws that apply to run for City Clerk elected position." The city […]

June 14, 2009