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    First Amendment Press Rights

    FAC Urges Court to Reject Attorney’s Attempt to Censor Vallejo News Site

    On January 25, the Vallejo Sun published "Vallejo officer fired for Willie McCoy shooting had history of complaints before joining Vallejo police," a story that details former Vallejo police officer Ryan McMahon's history of misconduct complaints at other police departments before joining the Vallejo Police Department in 2017. McMahon is currently in arbitration to […]

    January 27, 2024

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    CPRA

    Can An Agency Charge Fees for Inspecting Public Records?

    […] inspect emails or get copies of emails based on Government Code section 6253.9(b)?  Are they allowed to use rule of cost to construct a record, and the cost of programming and computer services necessary to produce a copy of the record, for the charging of emails either to inspect them or get copies of them?

    February 26, 2018

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    Federal Judge declines US request to freeze FAC’s FOIA suit for targeted killing memo

    The US Justice Department has failed in its effort to derail the First Amendment Coalition's FOIA suit for access to a government legal memo on the lethal targeting of US citizens engaged in terrorism against US interests. US District Judge Claudia Wilken on Tuesday denied the Justice Department's request to stay proceedings in the […]

    July 24, 2012

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    CPRA

    How can I access records regarding college sports’ recruitment?

    […] the requested records are disclosable within 10 days of your request, and "promptly notify" you, in writing, if it will make the records available, or specifically state the exemption it is claiming and how it applies to the requested records.  Gov't Code § 6253(c).  The agency must also state the estimated date and time when […]

    July 21, 2016

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    CPRA

    Individual accessing results on their own background check

    […] review your application materials (if you kept a copy of them) to verify whether a waiver was made.In addition, in your next communication with the law enforcement agencies you might also want to ask them for the legal authority on which they base their denial.That might enable you to evaluate whether the denial is lawful.

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Can I be charged $6000 for staff time needed to find and redact requested records?

    My recent request for public records was granted. However, the agency wants to charge me about $6000 to supply the records because of the staff time it will supposedly take to compile them all from the various warehouses in which the paper records are stored. And they want to charge for the time spent reacting the forms. […]

    March 2, 2016

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    Stripped of First Amendment Rights By City Council

    I went to a city council meeting and a woman was being proposed for city office. I condemned her appointment, saying Martin Luther King Jr. would not have approved. I also condemned the homosexuals in the room. Christianity is often condemned by others with no results, but this time, the Mayor interrupted me and […]

    December 4, 2018

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    CPRA

    DMV License Plate Records

    […] back as non-existent.  A DMV telephone help line operator told me the plate number was not in the DMV system.  I submitted a broad CPRA request asking for all paper and electronic records for the license plate number as well as a photo of the vehicle showing the plates. DMV replied to my CPRA […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Accessing bids for public contracts

    I have submitted a request for public records to an irrigation district, consisting of several documents but most importantly a copy of a publicly read proposal turned in my another contractor.  The irrigation district’s general counsel refused the request and quoted Times Mirror v. Superior Court. Public bids are read aloud at the time of […]

    June 14, 2009