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  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Inaccurate agenda information at County Board meeting

    Is it a Brown Act violation to intentionally provide false information on the agenda, agenda description, or supporting documents provided with the agenda for a County Board meeting?

    April 15, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    Bagley-Keene Act

    How Do Citizens Know If Agenda Items Meet the Criteria for Closed Sessions Discussion?

    […] the closed session portion of a meeting of a state body qualify under relevant law to be so classified? Do we have to take the agency's word for it? At meeting this year of a committee of CalPERS pension fund, many topics that for years have been taken up in open meetings were moved […]

    December 14, 2020

  • Latest News

    Blog

    2007 Open Government Legislative Roundup: Some successes and some failures

    […] state Supreme Court decision in Copley Press v. Superior Court, which effectively sealed all police disciplinary records. The major success was legislation creating more oversight and accountability for the UC Regents’ and CSU Trustees’ executive pay committees. Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Senator Gloria Romero (D-Santa Monica) introduced AB 1393 and SB 1019, […]

    June 3, 2009

  • Latest News

    Press Release

    Cal Poly Student Journalist, FAC Sue University for Withholding Public Records

    Award-Winning Student Journalist’s Public Records Requests Remain Unfulfilled for More Than 18 Months SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Elizabeth Wilson, a student journalist at Mustang News, the student paper at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), today sued the school for violating the California Public Records Act by refusing to disclose public […]

    April 23, 2024

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act CPRA

    City Council editing public meeting videos

    […] complaint with the police department.  I spoke from a prepared speech. No one did a thing. At the end of the meeting no one addressed my request for a proper complaint. I then asked the chief of police three times for a complaint. He had an officer escort me into an interrogation room. They took my contact […]

    July 30, 2015

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA Police Records

    Police refuse to release names of individuals who bought stolen laptop

    […] and addresses of persons involved in, or witnesses to, the incident, the description of property involved, the date, time and location of the incident, etc. Id.  The exemption goes on to state, however, that disclosure is not required if it would "endanger the safety of a witness or other person involved in the investigation," […]

    December 12, 2014

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Can a records request be denied in California over fear of the public being misinformed?

    We are unaware of any cases holding that a danger of misleading the public is valid grounds for withholding a record. As you know,the "catch-all" exemption of § 6255 only applies if the agency can demonstrate that "on the facts of the particular case the public interest served by not disclosing the record clearly […]

    September 23, 2020

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Special Meetings and Means of Notice

    Three members of a five member board have called for a special meeting, where the selection process of the General Manager of the district was going to be discussed. The president refused to call the meeting, and or to participate in a conference call. The meeting was not called because the General Manager (that […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA Police Records

    Need Guidance On Gaining Access to Arrest Report

    […] jurisdictions and parole or probation holds." Gov’t Code § 6254(f)(1). You can read more on this website about the Public Records Act, including the law enforcement record exemption, here. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can […]

    June 20, 2018