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  • Latest News

    Blog

    When mayors evade disclosure rules by using personal email accounts for city business, it is democracy that suffers. We’ll know soon if the courts, like the public, have lost patience.

    For years government officials in California have known that their emails about official business are subject to disclosure as public records. Although mayors, city managers, supervisors and superintendents may not like this, the applicability of the public records law to email messages is settled. You will not be shocked to learn, however, that […]

    February 6, 2014

  • Events

    Media Leak Investigations and the First Amendment

    […] by the First Amendment Coalition and First Amendment Watch, a project of New York University’s journalism program. FAC Executive Director David Snyder interviewed Ellen Nakashima, a national security reporter for the Washington Post, Charlie Savage, a national security reporter for the New York Times, and Gabe Rottman, director of the Technology and Press Freedom Project of the Reporters […]

    August 13, 2024

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Written correspondence to and from officials as public record

    […] policy requiring council members to make public all written correspondence including email rec'd from private citizens regardless of its content, citing the Brown Act and the desire for a more "transparent" city gov't. A number of citizens believe that this is a violation of their 1st Amend & privacy rights and is just an […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Bagley-Keene Act Newsgathering

    Arrested at meeting for commenting on no-public-comment rule

    […] the Dept. of Fish and Game. The facilitators illegally tried to establish a no public comment and no recording policy at these public meetings. I was arrested for trying to openly record the meeting, and for stating that the no public comment policy was illegal. They have, as of last week, reversed their illegal […]

    July 2, 2010

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA FOIA

    Information on Minors, Public Schools, and the California Public Records Act

    I would like to know if information on children attending public schools is available under the Federal Open Records Act.  I am looking to get mailing address for parents sending their children to public schools.  If this information is available, would I be able to get the information from the school district office or […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Does the CA legislature have an open meeting law?

    […] applies to the CA legislature. What law governs the process through which the CA legislature, including committees, considers laws and informs the public of opportunity to comment at hearings. And are there laws that prevent a committee for adding a last-minute amendment (without notice) to a bill that has little connection to the original bill?

    December 17, 2014

  • Asked and Answered

    Police Records

    Police Department in New Jersey Won’t Release Report on a Family Member’s Death

    New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act provides that "government records shall be readily accessible for inspection, copying, or examination by the citizens of this State, with certain exceptions, for the protection of the public interest, and any limitations on the right of access … shall be construed in favor of the public’s right of […]

    August 22, 2020

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Access to public library records under Public Records Act

    […] any kind or character in excess of the period prescribed by the general law of the State of California." Additionally, "library…materials made or acquired and presented solely for reference…purposes" are exempt from the Public Records Act. Cal. Gov't Code § 6254(j). Notwithstanding the above, you may want to send the library a formal letter […]

    April 1, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    Court Records

    Access to case exhibit

    I have a case in the Court of Appeal. My attorney needed a copy from the case file. I went to court and asked for a copy of exhibit 3. The clerk denied my request. I told my attorney this and he sent a local to obtain exhibit 3. She too was denied access […]

    June 14, 2009