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    CPRA

    Are CPRA requests public?

    Are Public Records Act requests themselves exempt from the Public Records Act? Specifically, are PRA logs or other materials used to document PRA requests exempt or available for public review?

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Police Records

    Law Enforcement Records, Interrogation Reports, and Public Access

    […] at their home working on a project when the attack occurred on the campus.  One of the parents is involved in law enforcement. Nonetheless, he was interrogated for hours, pressured to confess to a crime he had nothing to do with, and then jailed overnight until his parents could arrange bail.  The actual perpetrator […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Cases Press Release

    Water district, in settlement with FAC, agrees to disclose water usage by corporations

    […] name, credit history, utility usage data, home address, or telephone number of utility customers of local agencies . . ." FAC, in its lawsuit, argued that this exemption is limited to residential customers, while information about corporate customers must be made public. "We’re very pleased that the Desert Water Agency, reversing course, has agreed […]

    October 30, 2014

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    CPRA Police Records

    Sheriff’s office denies access to 2004 arrest documents saying too much time has elapsed

    […] by. . . or any investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local police agency. . . ."There is no temporal limitation on this exemption: it applies equally to ongoing and closed investigations. Williams v. Superior Court, 5 Cal. 4th 337 (1993). The information required to be extracted from such records […]

    October 4, 2011

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    Brown Act

    Brown Act violations in closed session real-property negotiations

    […] be invalidated with a "Cure and Correct" letter due to incorrect closed session procedure. If so, how would the form letter be worded to accomplish this? Thanks for the response to my question. It appears that this violation may continue until the decision is brought to open session.One other question is as to the […]

    September 8, 2016

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    CPRA

    Access to names of applicants to official positions

    The City Council will soon be considering the applications filed for three openings on two commissions. I am trying to obtain the names of the applicants and I am being met with some resistance. Should I have access to the names?

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    When Does Copyright Apply to Public Records?

    […] the home in the city offices. But they said we could not make copies of them or reproduce them because they were copyrighted by the architectural firm. I'm wondering if such a copyright exemption exists in the CPRA? Or do we have the right to insist on making copies of the material and publishing it?

    May 23, 2018

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    Brown Act

    Labor negotiations and the Brown Act

    […] vote on the bonus remain secret? I asked to know the breakdown of which board members voted which way on the bonus. Is that information protected against public disclosure? I did not ask the amount of the bonus, nor the results of the evaluation. I only asked for the breakdown of who voted which way.

    June 14, 2009

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    Cases Press Release

    Key settlement in FAC case breaks new ground in public access to officials’ emails

    […] a landmark settlement in a case involving public access to government email messages. The agreement with the city of Auburn, California requires the city to save emails for at least two years–replacing a prior policy of deleting most emails after 30 days. The agreement, approved by the city today, also assures public access to […]

    July 25, 2012

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    Blog

    Police are wrong: Cop-cam videos must be released as public records

    […] they do not have "carte blanche" or "unlimited" power to label any document as part of an investigatory file. If police were permitted to do that, the " exemption would swallow the rule." Body camera and dashboard tapes in particular shouldn’t be labeled confidential investigatory material. The footage represents objective, neutral documentation of events, and in […]

    October 6, 2016