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CPRA

Can Agencies Be Required to Choose Least Costly Format for Electronic Record Reproduction?

Are California public bodies required to use the least costly method reasonably available to them for duplicating and (if separate) for transferring records responsive to a CPRA request? Is there case law on that question? Context: I am a frequent requestor of video records from agencies across all levels of government and across the […]

November 27, 2018
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CPRA

Can I use public records to find out why I was denied unemployment benefits?

I received a Notice of Determination from Employment Development Department (EDD) stating that I had I refused a Job…and under Code 1257B will be denied U/I benefits for 10 week…" I believe that EDD was supplied with false information by a previous employer simply for relation and or harassment do to a previous administrative law […]

June 8, 2012
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Cases

Amici Briefs Digest – March 2018

Here are amicus briefs and/or letters FAC has either authored or joined since Dec. 2018: FAC Authored Amicus Briefs Brazil v. Newark Unified: On February 2, FAC filed an amicus brief that we co-authored with the ACLU in a trial court proceeding. This was a fairly unusual move for FAC. We have generally steered clear […]
March 7, 2018
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CPRA Police Records

Is footage taken by an officer wearing a body-camera a public document?

[…] should respond to your request within 10 days, letting you know whether it will release the footage or not, and if not, exactly why (citing the specific exemption and describing how it applies to the records that you seek). Gov’t Code 6253(c). The California Public Records Act applies to "any writing containing information relating […]

June 12, 2014
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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
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CPRA Police Records

Under CPRA, do I have a right to know who issued a citation?

[…] makes available the requested records pursuant to Section 6253. (2) The public agency determines that the request should be denied and bases that determination solely on an exemption listed in Section 6254. (3) The public agency makes available an index of its records. Gov't Code § 6253.1. In other words, the agency should assist […]

September 10, 2014
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Consumers blindsided by secret settlements in hi-tech patent lawsuits

[…] the right to petition, that right has never been seen as requiring confidentiality in communications with government. Auburn's email policy would be improved by either removing this exemption or, as a compromise, requiring disclosure of council members' communications with persons or firms having business before the City Council. The San Jose and Auburn policies […]

December 23, 2012
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CPRA

The CPRA and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance

[…] people contact their government. What about fax machine call logs? Also is there a concept of private vs official or business email addresses - is it different for citizens than public officials? Lastly, what about email server logs showing when an email was processed? What about whistleblowers - should they be told to use […]

June 14, 2009
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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
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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