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Brown Act CPRA

Redaction of investigative report

The Brown Act governs access to meetings and provides exemptions for when meetings may be held in closed session. Unfortunately there is no section of the Brown Act that requires a government body such as the city council to meet for discussion regarding a particular topic. The Public Record Act governs which government records […]

August 12, 2014
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CPRA

Councilman asks intern on date via city issued cell

I have learned that a city councilman was sending text messages to a city intern, asking her for a date. I would like to file a CPR request for the text messages sent from his city issued Blackberry. I'm sure they (the councilman and the city attorney) would try to argue that such a […]

November 21, 2009
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CPRA

PRA Requested Documents Withheld Due to “Attorney-Client Privilege”

It appears that Cal Fire invoked the attorney-client privilege exemption in order to withhold the documents. In general, California law provides that confidential communications between a lawyer and his or her client are privileged and do not have to be disclosed. Evidence Code sections 954-955. In addition, materials created by an attorney in the […]

June 26, 2018
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CPRA Police Records

Accessing police Internal Affairs reports

[…] probably not the provision you have in mind.Section 6254(f), also part of the PRA, exempts from disclosure most records of investigations conducted by police agencies (see below for text of Section 6254(f)) That section does provide that: "state and local law enforcement agencies shall disclose the names and addresses of persons involved in, or […]

September 20, 2010
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Shame on Inglewood. Using copyright as a muzzle, the city files suit to censor a local critic

[…] the PRA would be meaningless, since local governments and agencies could assert copyright over any records they don’t want to disclose, regardless of the availability of PRA exemptions. Copyrights, because they impose restrictions on expression, are in tension with the first amendment’s protection for free speech. We nonetheless have copyrights (in fact, they are […]
- Free Expression
May 29, 2015
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CPRA

CPRA request filled, but witnesses names were redacted

[…] my laptop as such they either became witnesses by providing information or suspects by not). I went through the Records Supervisor, and I also contacted the City Attorney for a meeting but was denied. The conclusion was a letter from the City Attorney advising me that all the necessary information/reasons was relayed to me four […]

March 31, 2015
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CPRA

Multiple CPRA Requests For A Decades Old Homicide Have Been Denied Without Explanation

[…] California Department of Justice regarding a 1981 multiple homicide. I have reason to believe the two suspects in the homicides were not arrested because one of the suspects was a confidential informant at the time. I have asked for clarification or other information on the matter but have turned down several times in the past.

April 28, 2022
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CPRA Police Records

Police refuse request for incident report from peaceful protest

[…] by the deputies in response to that dispatch. In their letter dated Aug. 3, 2011, I was advised that my request "is denied." The letter then cites exemptions under Gov. Code section 6254 (k), CPC 832.7 and Gov. Code 6254 (f). I believe that our First Amendment rights have been trampled on and the […]

September 9, 2011
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CPRA

Fee for email copies same as paper copies?

As for your first question, California’s Public Records Act provides that state and local agencies must provide copies of public records that are not exempt from disclosure "upon payment of fees covering direct costs of duplication, or a statutory fee if applicable." Govt. Code § 6253(b). A charge of 10 cents per page is […]

March 18, 2010
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CPRA

Access to Coroner’s Files

I sent the following request to the LA County Coroner's office, asking for information. Their refusal to cooperate is reproduced after my original letter. Am I entitled to any of the information I requested?

June 14, 2009