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CPRA Newsgathering Police Records

Can I access driver ID’s from traffic-stop police reports?

I am working on a story about traffic stops and would like to request the city's police department for records related to about 10 incidents involving drivers with suspended licenses (I have the incident numbers). But before I make my request: Can the police department deny me accessing the name, address or other fields […]

April 16, 2015
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Newsgathering

Requesting tax information from a non-profit organization

[…] articles on a local nonprofit. I know that as a 501(c)3 nonprofits have to file financial information with the IRS and are required to show the 990 form to anyone who asks. As a journalist and member of the public, can I request financial information from the most recently ended fiscal year (which would […]

August 19, 2010
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CPRA

Report Request Denied Citing ‘Attorney Work Product, Official Info and Deliberative Process Privilege’

[…] Procedure §2018.030), the official information privilege (Evidence Code §1040), and the deliberative process privilege (Government Code §6255; Times Mirror Co. v. Superior Court (1991) 53 Cal.3d 1325)." I'd like to get some guidance on this. Would such a report actually fall under these exemptions? If not, how should I craft my response to the county?

November 27, 2018
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CPRA

Is US’s federally-funded research exempt from CPRA?

[…] who paid for them to be generated; rather, if the agency is in possession of the records, then those records are presumptively subject to disclosure unless some exemption applies. Furthermore, a "state agency" includes state universities. Gov't Code § 6252(f). Thus, the Public Records Act applies to UC Berkeley and its records. See, e.g., California […]

March 19, 2014
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CPRA

Do legal fees count under pending litigation CPRA exemption?

My records request for the documents showing how much money the county has spent on a current and ongoing lawsuit. The County states that the information revealing the total money spent is privileged because the case is in active litigation. It would appear to me that no privileged information concerning the case would be […]

February 4, 2014
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CPRA

Will attorney/client privilege keep me from learning how County is spending bond money?

[…] use funds from a CSA (County Service Area), which is involved in a lawsuit. What was presented to the people in the ballot said nothing about using the funds for the legal defense of the County. Is the information I requested attorney client privilege or is it public information? I look forward to your response.

June 8, 2015
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CPRA

Documents once public now denied

[…] specified in Sections 6254, 6254.7, or other similar provisions of law. This record has already been released to the public, in many different forms, therefore, has this agency already waived any claim to an exemption regarding these records? I have even modified my request for just inspection of these records and continued to be denied?

January 12, 2011
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CPRA FOIA Police Records

Obtaining concluded investigative reports

[…] are not obtainable," I assume you are dealing with local law enforcement and not the FBI.That is unfortunate because the California Supreme Court has held that the exemption to the California Public Records Act for police investigatory files goes on forever, even years after the investigation is concluded. That case is Williams v. Superior […]

June 14, 2009
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FOIA

Non-response to FOIA request

[…] done. Moreover, the FOIA provides a mechanism to deal with unusually burdensome requests which an agency would not be able to process within the prescribed time limits. For such requests, the FOIA requires that an agency inform the requester that the request cannot be processed within the time limits and provide an opportunity for […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

CPRA Exemptions for Drafts

[…] it would not be provided until it is completed. In actuality, this is supposedly ready to go to the Planning Commission in two weeks. This all seems like a delay tactic. Have read your answers about reports in draft form. This response does not seem to meet the exemption requirements. Thank you for any clarification.

April 2, 2018