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  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA Police Records

    Accessing consumer complaint records

    […] request on the ground that consumer complaints and confidential law enforcement records of the AG are exempt from disclosure to the public pursuant to Cal Govt. Code Section 6254(f), citing Dick Williams v. Superior Court (1993) 5 Cal. 4th 337 (which held that investigative records in the possession of law enforcement are exempt form disclosure).

    June 14, 2009

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    CFAC Update: Acting globally and locally: From internet censorship in China to a TRO against Atherton, CA

    […] the government of China to end its censorship of the internet. In a submission and presentation to the Office of the US Trade Representative, CFAC has petitioned for the filing of a complaint with the World Trade Organization, of which China became a member in 2001. Our (concededly novel) theory: that China's censorship of […]

    June 3, 2009

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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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    CPRA

    Accessing City Annuities and Investments

    […] not give us any information on the City process on the referendum.  The City Clerk would not assist use on the process and we gave her our form and the notice; the City Clerk and acting city attorney would not comment on the form.  We did post in a public place the court house […]

    June 14, 2009

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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 School Records

    Cities’ rights and the CPRA

    […] to with hold this information? Second, I read the code as saying that every entity must have a posting of the law someplace AND a "person" responsible for handling request.  Am I correct in this or do state agencies have different rules that city’s.  I am hoping to get by the "dumb bunny" stage […]

    June 14, 2009

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    If the federal FOIA shared the limitations of California’s public records law, large parts of American history would be blank.

    […] of the federal FOIA, these vital historical records were subject to California’s bastard version of that law, the California Public Records Act, with all the special interest exemptions and loopholes that, over the years, have been engrafted thereon. If that were the case, none of these records ever would have seen the light of […]

    October 14, 2014

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    FAC posts online confidential CalPERS’ docs ordered released by Court

    […] September 24 and the second on September 30. Follow the links below to view the documents. --All documents released Sept. 24 (approximately 1175 pages): Single File --All documents released Sept. 30. These are four files (approximately 115 pages each): File One File Two File Three File Four You can view the Court's decision here: http://bit.ly/bdqtjG

    September 28, 2010