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    Brown Act

    School district denies Brown Act violation. What next?

    Thank you for your helpful website. I used your Cure & Correct demand template to submit a Cure & Correct letter to the Board of Trustees and the attorney representing our school district. My letter was sent on April 10, 2013, and it referenced several Brown Act violations related to a School Board meeting […]

    June 17, 2013

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    CPRA

    Autopsies and CPRA

    I need to verify the number of individuals in attendance at autopsies of CDC incarcerated persons in my county (for a parking/zoning issue).  Are autopsy attendance records of prisoners open?  How may they be obtained?  I don't feel I can ask for this info from the local M.E. (politics).  Is there another route?

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Police Records

    Traffic Citations and the CPRA

    Your questions seem to go to whether the Public Records Act grants an exemption to certain types of records. As you are apparently already aware, Cal. Gov. Code sec. 6254 contains a list of types of records that are not subject to the disclosure requirements of the CPRA. (1) Traffic citations: We are not […]

    June 14, 2009

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    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 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

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    CPRA

    My CPRA requests have been ignored. What can I do?

    […] records within 10 days of receipt of the request, and making copies of records available promptly thereafter.  Gov’t Code § 6253(c). If the agency is claiming that an exemption applies to any of the records you are seeking, it must let you know what the exemption is, and exactly how it applies to those records.  Gov’t […]

    May 19, 2015

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Water agency contractors’ calculations “trade secret”?

    A county water agency has hired a consultant for a major capital project and has released the feasibility study done by the consultant but has not responded for a request to review the consulting contract itself. This isn’t academic: the agency asserts that the consultants’ excel spreadsheet originals containing the actual cell-by-cell math calculations […]

    January 16, 2012

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    CPRA

    Is a school caretakers’s security camera subject to CPRA?

    […] records.  Gov’t Code § 6253.1.  Additionally, if the agency refuses to provide a certain record it must cite any exemptions it is claiming and describe how the exemption applies to the records.  Gov’t Code § 6253(c).  The challenge with any PRA request is ensuring that it is broad enough to capture all the records […]

    September 10, 2016