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  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act CPRA School Records

    School District agenda packets

    I have submitted a phone request to my local School District for copies of the Board Packet.  I was refused, stating that "it was not their policy."  I then sent a Certified Letter citing legal references and demanding the documents.  They are still delaying and refusing.

    June 14, 2009

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Sues LAPD Over Failure to Release Bodycam Recordings from Protest

    […] showing the Los Angeles Police Department’s violent treatment of protesters who demonstrated peacefully outside the official residence of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on December 6, 2020. For more than 18 months, the LAPD has refused to turn over the recordings of the incident that left protesters badly injured, despite a landmark police transparency […]

    July 6, 2022

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA School Records

    School District Stalling Over My Request For Gender Breakdowns On Student Performance

    I made a PRA request to the School District for gender breakdowns on student performance. After nine business days, I receive an email reply from a law firm seeking "clarification" on about fifty percent of the items. The clarifications requested are not necessary; they are stalling. And they do claim to have approximately half […]

    April 21, 2022

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    Regulators analyzing MediaNews’ acquisition…

    […] San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Monterey Herald, and 30 Bay Area weekly newspapers, is paying a 20% premium over the price that McClatchy paid Knight-Ridder for these same publications less than two months ago. Antitrust regulators in the U.S. Justice Department, who must decide whether to go to court to try to […]

    June 2, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Water Usage Records

    I want to find out which residential customers (or which addresses, if names do not get released) have the highest water bills in Los Angeles. Is this information public record? And if so, will the Department of Water and Power sort through their files to provide me with their top ten users?

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Police Records

    Police refuse to release names of individuals who bought stolen laptop

    […] and addresses of persons involved in, or witnesses to, the incident, the description of property involved, the date, time and location of the incident, etc. Id.  The exemption goes on to state, however, that disclosure is not required if it would "endanger the safety of a witness or other person involved in the investigation," […]

    December 12, 2014

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    CPRA

    City Clerk’s obligation to the CPRA

    […] available.If you have been denied access to public records, your remedy is to file a lawsuit in which you could seek a court order compelling disclosure of the records.Depending on the reasons why the documents are being withheld, you may have a valid lawsuit.However, there are a number of exemptions under the Public Records Act.

    June 14, 2009

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Demands Investigation, Return of Equipment After Photojournalist Arrested

    […] cover the arrest and seizurehere,here, andhere. The joint letter to Marin County District Attorney Lori Frugoli, Sausalito Mayor Jill Hoffman, and Sausalito Police Chief John Rohrbacher asks for the immediate return of Portje’s photo and other equipment to him and defends the media’s right to film in public places. The organizations also ask that […]

    December 8, 2021

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    Blog

    US relaxes gag order, permitting Google, Facebook et al to disclose scope of NSA access. But what if the firms don’t know the extent of NSA access?

    […] NSA requests resulting in access to companies' user data, including access to user content (e.g., emails). This week the companies made the newly okayed disclosures. They revealed, for the period January to June of 2013, that . . . -Google provided content on somewhere between 9,000-9,999 accounts. -Yahoo provided content on somewhere between 30,000-30,999 […]

    February 4, 2014