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    Blog

    A stunning end to the media’s 20-year losing streak in high court access cases.

    Watershed CA Supreme Court decision is major win for government transparency By Peter Scheer America's highest courts are justly criticized for avoiding hard issues. The judicial fetish for deciding cases on the narrowest possible grounds yields opinions so limited and unambitious in scope that they often raise more questions, and generate more legal disputes, […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Special Commentary | You Have the Right to Record Law Enforcement Officers — Including at the Border

    […] Mr. Ramirez, forcibly took his cell phone, and deleted his photographs — effectively interfering with Mr. Ramirez’s constitutional right to record. The right to record is critical for holding law enforcement, especially CBP officials, accountable for abuses at the border. Recording and documenting interactions with federal law enforcement officers are especially critical tools for […]

    June 9, 2022

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    CPRA fees and information in electronic form

    Responding to a request for copies of all messages, emails from council members laptops to each other, especially during the periods of council meetings for the last two months, the city has responded thusly:Pursuant to the California Public Records Act Government Code 6253.9 b. 2 the following fees are associated with fulfilling your request: […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Request denied for fire district celebration guest list

    […] not something normally kept on file, any factual sections of the report, and perhaps its observations and analysis, would typically not be precluded from disclosure under this exemption. Citizens for a Better Environment v. Department of Food Agriculture, 171 Cal. App. 3d 704 (1985). Note that the case also said that even if documents […]

    August 16, 2013

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    FAC lawsuit leads to model CPRA policy for dot-gov email

    […] the right to petition, that right has never been seen as requiring confidentiality in communications with government. Auburn's email policy would be improved by either removing this exemption or, as a compromise, requiring disclosure of council members' communications with persons or firms having business before the City Council. The San Jose and Auburn policies […]

    December 23, 2012

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    CPRA Police Records

    Police Blotter Information

    […] Address The Public Records Act says "...state and local law enforcement agencies shall make public the following information...the time, substance, and location of all complaints or requests for assistance received by agency and the time and nature of the response including the extent the information regarding crimes alleged or committed or any other incident […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Press Release

    CFAC, scholars sue CA State Bar for access to records on affirmative action

    […] today of a lawsuit against the State Bar of California to force it to disclose years of statistical records on bar exam results. The records are sought for an academic research project that will test the controversial theory that affirmative action policies at law schools harm the very minority students they are intended to […]

    June 3, 2009

  • Posts

    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

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    How FAC Fights for Police Transparency

    […] with a FAQ and sample request letters. CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RECORDS ACT PRIMERThis handbook offers an overview of our state’s main freedom of information law, with discussion of exemptions, fees, and best practices for submitting requests. The Public Records Act was renumbered in 2023, and this guide has been updated to reflect the new code […]

    August 9, 2023