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    FAC’s letter to Gov Brown, urging veto of SB 1300

    […] Coalition (FAC), I am writing to request your veto—or, alternatively, a qualified signing--of Senate Bill 1300, which requires oil companies to file reports on scheduled shutdowns, typically for maintenance, of their refinery facilities. We have no objection to the bill’s substantive regulatory requirements. However, we object strongly to procedural requirements that will seriously curtail […]

    September 17, 2014

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    CPRA

    Should I be allowed to access a report in draft form?

    I have made a request for a report commissioned by the city to evaluate the police department. My request was denied on the grounds that the report is in draft form. A similar report on the fire department was released as a "draft final report." That report has since been removed from public access […]

    March 29, 2012

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    Court Records

    Accessing Court Records

    For months I was not allowed access to my family law case file. Couldn’t even get a copy of the docket sheet. Finally, I got some of it. There is significant wrong doing in my case on the part of many. I have found evidence of altering of some court documents. I have […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    If A Lawyer Sends A Threatening Letter to A City Attorney Marked “Confidential” Is It?

    I would agree with your assessment that marking a letter between lawyers as "confidential" does not justify exemption under the Public Records Act. Although the PRA exempts, via Government Code 6254(k), certain privileged communications, e.g., those protected by the attorney-client privilege per Evidence Code§§ 954, 955, and work product, as protected under Civil Procedure […]

    November 5, 2018

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    FOIA

    Making a FOIA request to the Dept. of Homeland Security

    […] "disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions." At any rate, ideally, the agency should explain how each piece of information sought fits within this exemption. For more information related to the FOIA, here are some resources that you might find useful: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: http://www.rcfp.org/foia/ National Freedom […]

    July 11, 2011

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    Brown Act

    Senior Center Boards and the Brown Act

    […] of records that are ... (c) Personnel, medical or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasions of personal privacy." Generally speaking, however, this exemption is only supposed to apply to purely personal information in the files unrelated to the "conduct of the public's business." See San Gabriel Tribune v. Superior […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    DNA records

    I am the webmaster of a site tracking the case of a serial rapist/killer. I would like to gain access to the crime files of a local Sheriff's department regarding the killer. The statute of limitations on the rapes committed by this person expired over a decade ago. There is DNA information in the […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Police Records

    Missing persons report and the CPRA

    I plan on submitting a public records request for a missing persons report that was filed with a police department. The individual filed as a missing person was found dead a day later. Is such a record public, when it could possibly be evidence in a murder investigation? Such a report is filed with […]

    June 14, 2009

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    FAC Prompts Disclosure of California Governor Jerry Brown’s Social Media ‘Block Lists’

    […] Brown showing that he blocked more than 1,500 individual accounts on his Twitter and Facebook accounts--a practice that excluded those people from participating in a vital forum for political discussion and debate surrounding the state’s highest elected official. In releasing the documents to FAC, the Governor’s office said Brown does not "currently block or […]

    September 27, 2017