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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 (It was reported that the official’s visa was revoked by the State Department.)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
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CPRA School Records

Accessing a public employee’s resume

[…] awards, pervious positions and publications . . . is routinely presented in professional and social settings, is relatively innocuous and implicates no applicable privacy or public policy exemption." Id. at 794. http://login.findlaw.com/scripts/callaw?dest=ca/calapp3d/134/788.html With respect to disciplinary records of public employees, California courts have held that there is a strong public policy against disclosure of […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Access to rezoning information

Our local school district here in decided that they want to rezone school boundaries. The district went ahead and formed a committee to make boundary recommendations. The committee members were chosen by invitation only, without any notice to the public at large. We (myself, and other members of the community) recently learnt that all […]

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
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CPRA

Can we submit a Public Records Act request for a California elected official’s personal emails, text messages?

[…] to the CPRA still apply to information contained in personal accounts, such as the exemptions for certain personal financial data, personnel and medical files, and the "catch-all" exemption of Cal. Gov. Code § 6255(a). In any event, any messages in the city council member’s accounts that substantively pertain to the public’s business (and are […]

July 30, 2020
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CPRA

Accessing public records on mental health workers

[…] Public Records Act, Govt Code section 6250 et seq., although generally requiring that the public have access to all records of state and local government, contains numerous exemptions. Among these exemptions is Govt Code section 6254(c) which permits an agency to withhold "personnel, medical and similar files," the disclosure of which would constitute and […]

June 11, 2013
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CPRA

Documents relating to employment

I applied for a job with a public transit agency in California.I did not get the job and would like to know if my previous employer in another state gave me a negative reference.The agency has refused to give me this information (saying it is against their policy), though I believe it is my […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA School Records

School employee discipline and hiring records

[…] of records that are ... (c) Personnel, medical or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invations 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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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