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  • Asked and Answered

    Court Records

    Small Claims Court, Case Files, Public Access

    Are the case files for small claims courts cases were judgments are awarded available for review by the public?  If so, can you please provide me with the authority?  Can you refer me to a website were I can do more research on this subject?

    June 14, 2009

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    FOIA

    Records with the names of citizens and non-citizens

    I want to ask for some guidelines about the law (I am not sure if it is a law or not) that protects the names of illegal immigrants that are convicted in the U.S. of violent crimes. I want to have guidelines about which one is the story here, I want to know why […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Latest News

    Press Release

    FAC Prevails in Effort to Force CA Attorney General to Disclose Police Misconduct Files

    A San Francisco judge today ordered California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to begin disclosing police-misconduct files sought by the First Amendment Coalition (FAC)—a victory for government transparency against one of the few remaining police agencies in the state to refuse to comply with Senate Bill 1421, California’s new landmark police transparency bill that went […]

    May 17, 2019

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act CPRA

    CPRA request was denied for document discussed in open session

    […] victim of alleged sexual molestation by a county physician, the supervisors discussed corrective action the county would take in response to the lawsuit. However when I asked for a copy of the Corrective Action Plan document, which is sometime posted with the settlement information, I was told the document was "confidential." I immediately filed […]

    January 14, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act CPRA

    City Attorney says legal analysis is a CPRA exemption

    […] a PRA request for any legal analysis of the proposal. The City Attorney replied the legal analysis is attorney client privileged communication and is therefore a CPRA exemption. However, City Attorney also stated the document has not been the subject of an open or closed session of City Council. Can City Attorney distribute such […]

    June 10, 2013

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    City’s stonewalling newspapers

    […] not speak to this newspaper at all, and so we only communicate through documents gotten through public records requests.  A recent from us to the city asked for "all audits performed by Municipal Auditing Services in calendar years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007".  The city attorney sent a letter stating they will not […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Latest News

    Cases Press Release

    FAC Obtains Clemency Records in 6 California Cases After Challenging Secret Docket

    FAC’s year-long campaign for transparency in a key aspect of California’s criminal justice process has resulted in the release of previously sealed records in six clemency cases — records FAC is now making public. FAC obtained the records after securing a series of rulings from the California Supreme Court rejecting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s efforts […]

    December 23, 2019

  • Asked and Answered

    FOIA Social Media

    Advice on How to Request An Agency’s “Unlisted” YouTube Videos

    […] particular agency has posted, however I am not sure how to request that in a way which will get me what I want. Specifically, if I ask for a list of URLs for videos that the agency has posted to YouTube as "unlisted" it may be a reasonable response that such a list does […]

    April 6, 2018

  • Asked and Answered

    FOIA

    Foreign Officials, Detention, Privacy, and the Freedom of Information Act

    A former Philippine official, who is wanted in the Philippines for corruption charges, is detained at an immigration holding center in California -- reportedly for violation of immigration law. (It was reported that the official’s visa was revoked by the State Department.) The Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the State Department have refused to […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    FAC names free speech award winners–and one loser

    The First Amendment Coalition, a California-based non-profit public interest group, has named the 2009 recipients of its awards for service in the cause of free speech, open government and the public's right to know. In contrast, the Coalition also has presented its "Darkness Award," given in recognition of conduct that thwarts freedom of speech. […]

    October 22, 2009