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  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Charter schools and public oversight

    […] have been violated. The Governing Board falls under the Brown Act as a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation. Can I request and receive copies of permits from the school for the portable classrooms on campus? Because one of the Board members is affiliated with the City Office I was told I couldn't get the records.

    June 14, 2009

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    Cases Press Release

    UCLA Turns Over Video of Contentious Event with Treasury Secretary After Public Records Requests Flood in

    […] influenced by a third party. "The records were created by UCLA and are in possession of UCLA, a state body subject to CPRA," FAC’s request stated. "No exemption provides a third party to "revoke consent" or control access to such records." Just over a week later, on the evening of Friday, March 9, UCLA […]

    March 12, 2018

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    City misses CPRA request deadlines “due to staff vacancies”?

    My friend and I first requested financial records for two affordable housing projects receiving government subsidies on August 19. The City responded on August 27 informing us that due to staff vacancies they could not fulfill our request, and that they would provide a status update by October 1. On September 4, we responded to the […]

    October 12, 2015

  • Latest News

    Cases Press Release

    FAC, ACLU Sue for Public Access to Kern County Superior Court

    […] provided video or audio feeds of court proceedings. In most cases in Kern County, however, even family members were turned away from courthouses and not given options for remote access. It’s not just a hardship, it’s also unconstitutional. Today, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundations of Southern and Northern California, and the First Amendment […]

    June 26, 2020

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    FAC To LAPD: Police Bodycam Footage is a Public Record and Must Be Released

    […] to release bodycam footage unless ordered to do so by a court, and apparently treats all bodycam footage as exempt from disclosure under the so-called "investigative records" exemption to the California Public Records Act's broad disclosure requirements. As FAC explains in its letter to the Commission, which you can read below, the department's blanket […]

    June 8, 2017

  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    Journalists Thomas Peele & Caroline Titus named 2016 FAC Award Winners

    […] stories that advance government transparency and  "the people’s right to know." The winners are journalists Thomas Peele and Caroline Titus. The following is from the award citations for each: THOMAS PEELE is an investigative reporter, teacher and open government advocate who filed hundreds of public records requests this year to build a database of the 944 […]

    November 29, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    School district claims too busy to fulfill document request

    […] to view board meeting minutes, a contract with a specific vendor, payment documents to that vendor, and the names of the other bidders who were not selected for the position at the School District offices. Each time they sent me away saying that they were too busy to get the documents for me, and […]

    August 18, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA School Records

    Public official’s email communications

    […] exemptions under the Public Records Act, they must be disclosed.  Cal. Gov't Code section 6253(a).  Even if portions of the emails are properly withheld pursuant to an exemption, the remainder of the emails must be disclosed because any reasonably segregable portion of a record must be made available for inspection after deletion of the […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Latest News

    Cases Press Release

    FAC Moves—Again—To Unseal Records From CA Supreme Court “Secret Docket”

    […] prevents the public from seeing a crucial aspect of criminal justice in this state." FAC’s motion does not question that the woman, Susan H. Burton, is eligible for a pardon. The motion rather challenges the practice of automatically sealing pardon-request records–a practice that clearly violates California law. Under the California Rules of Court, the […]

    May 11, 2019