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    San Diego Sued for Withholding Bodyworn Camera Footage and 911 Call Logs From ICE Operations

    June 11, 2024

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    CPRA

    What are my rights when the Legislature’s Rules Committees haven’t responded to my request for legislative records for more than 10 days?

    I requested that a California state senator or their staff provide me with information about certain expenditures of budgeted state funds. A staffer forwarded my request to the Legislature Rules Committees. It’s been more than three weeks since I made the request and have received no response beyond an acknowledgment that the Committee received […]

    March 6, 2025

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    CPRA FOIA

    FOIA precedents and the CPRA #2

    Would a Federal FOIA ( Exemption 6) be precedent setting in California where the records in question fall under CPRA Section 6254(c)- personnel, medical, or similar files. Thank you. I appreciate it.CPRA exemption for private personal information Section 6254 Personnel, medical or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Police Records

    Access to records in workers’ comp issue

    […] -- a computer-aided dispatch log -- someone placed fraudulent information. I have requested the computer-aided dispatch logs through my former agency. The department has denied the request for radio, phone, and cab logs based on the following letter: We have received your California Public Records Act request, these files are exempt from disclosure pursuant […]

    April 5, 2016

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Access to City Manager’s compensation denied

    I am a  director for the Public Utility District trying to access the General Manager's compensation information.  Another director asked for W-2s with confidential information blacked out. And was told via email that they do not have to provide them. What information am I entitled to and how to I ask for it? The […]

    July 28, 2011

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    CPRA

    Private information in the public record

    […] Public Records Act, my license is a Public Document that the public is entitled to see.  They claim they are required to tell the Public their justification for giving me a Probationary License. My stand is that while the status of my license is public; the medical information they published on the Internet is […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    City Employee Information and Privacy

    […] director in our city says the city has a policy requiring written consent from any past employee before releasing information about the individual's employment there, including dates of employment. My questions: 1. Is this a permissible policy under state public records law and 2. Can I request a former policeman’s personnel file from the city?

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA School Records

    Accessing university’s decision making on promotions and tenure

    I'm working on a book on the discovery of AIDS. The discoverer was denied support for his promotion and tenure by his department's promotion and tenure committee. I wish to obtain all documents related to this decision. Two questions: 1. Can I obtain them using FOIA? 2. Do I address the FOIA to the […]

    June 9, 2015

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    CPRA

    Request For Public Employee W2 Forms Fulfilled, But Heavily Redacted. Are The Redactions Legal?

    I submitted a CPRA request for W2's for a group of public school employees. When I received the W2 forms, I expected the individual's Social Security Number and address to be redacted, but the school also redacted the information for the federal income tax withheld, social security tax withheld, medicare tax withheld, "other" withholdings/contributions […]

    April 26, 2022

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    CPRA

    Help Needed In Requesting Documents from California Coastal Commission

    […] provision of the Act or other law exempts them from disclosure. The CPRA contains many exceptions to its disclosure rules, including, possibly relevant here, the deliberative process exemption and the drafts exemption. There is a chance that the Commission may claim that some of the documents you requested are subject to the "drafts" exemption. […]

    March 16, 2020