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  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Secret Ballots

    Is it legal for a school board to fill a vacancy on the board with a secret vote? Is this addressed in the Brown Act and if so, where?

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Public comments on water rates closed, item still on agenda

    […] Council Agenda contains the following item: "DISCUSSION AND POTENTIAL ACTION ITEMS. Introduce and Waive the First Reading of One of the Three Ordinances Relating to Establishing Rates for Water Service Fees." Here is the problem. We are not being allowed to comment about this item at all, even though it has been on multiple […]

    November 25, 2009

  • Latest News

    Blog

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Searching Fees for Records Requests

    […] If the County believes the state Legislature has passed a law -- i.e., a statute – delegating to the County the right to determine whether to charge for accessing building permits (and, if so, how much), it should give you the citation to that statute (as we doubt any such statute exists). Absent such […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Cases

    First Amendment Coalition and Knock LA motion to unseal search warrant

    […] Unsealing of Warrant to Search Photojournalist and Black Lives Matters Protestors' Cell Phones (5/23/2023) Media Coalition Asks Court to Unseal Search Warrant Targeting Protesters Kept Under Seal for Two Years (9/19/2022) Blog: Unsealed: Newly released warrant reveals flimsy basis for L.A. sheriff targeting press, protesters (6/7/2023) Legal Documents: Court Order Granting Motion (11/10/2022) Petition […]

    August 10, 2022

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Fire Department Mishandled Response to CPRA Request

    […] four points now: 1. 6253 (b) "Except with respect to public records exempt from disclosure by express provisions of law, each state or local agency, upon a request for a copy of records that reasonably describes an identifiable record or records, shall make the records promptly available…" The LAFD response that they MIGHT disclose something […]

    January 26, 2018

  • Latest News

    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

    How long are routine County surveillance records archived?

    I have been fighting a speeding ticket for over the past year. After an initial failed CPRA request, I was able to retrieve dash-cam footage of the incident. However, upon review the County sent me footage from the wrong incident. The data that indicates the date and time of the footage was left out, […]

    May 6, 2016