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CPRA

CPRA ten-day deadline for request responses: Is that business days or calendar days?

Regarding the CPRA's mandate that an agency must respond to a request within 10 days, FAC and other groups claim this means calendar days, not working days. Is there some compelling basis for this belief?

September 16, 2015
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Tracy case tests the power of government officials to avoid disclosure of their emails on public business

[…] accepted by the courts, would convert California’s Public Records Act into its opposite, an Official Secrecy Act. Elected officials and public employees would use official email accounts for proclamations, resolutions, press releases and other official drivel intended for public consumption, while switching to their personal yahoo accounts, insulated from public attention, for everything else--which […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
June 2, 2009
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CPRA

Removing Personal Information from Public Record

[…] but I also like to keep my personal life private like those other people who never live in the USA. I have not been residing in USA for almost 10 years now and there's no reason that my public records are out there. I do not owe any debts either. No need to apply […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA First Amendment

The CPRA and court records

[…] seek to access).Nevertheless, you could request the transcript of the California Supreme Court proceedings on the grounds that they are court records that must be made available for inspection and copying by the public under the First Amendment and California law.Your submission does not state whether the proceedings were criminal or civil in nature. […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Information on Running for City Clerk

My wife and I are trying to gather information on running for City Clerk in our town. She did a Public Records Request and wrote: "I would like to request when term is up for City Clerk elected position and all city laws that apply to run for City Clerk elected position." The city […]

June 14, 2009
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It starts again: A Washington, DC judge has ordered 5 journalists to name their confidential sources for stories about the anthrax letters of 2001

By Peter Scheer Just when you thought it was safe again for journalists to talk to confidential sources inside government, a federal judge in Washington, DC has ordered five prominent reporters---Allan Lengel of the Washington Post; Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, both of Newsweek; Toni Locy, formerly of USA Today; and James Stewart of […]
- Press Freedom
June 3, 2009
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CPRA

What’s the law regarding destruction of public records?

[…] body or of a city board or commission. This section shall not be construed as limiting or qualifying in any manner the authority provided in Section 34090.5 for the destruction of records, documents, instruments, books and papers in accordance with the procedure therein prescribed. Gov't Code Section 34090. Effective January 2010, however, "the legislative […]

July 20, 2010
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Court Records

Child Services Court Records

I would like to know how can I obtain records for a previous case through Child services for my records and for court records for a case pertaining to child custody.

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act CPRA

Are a city manager’ meetings with his staff covered by the Brown Act?

Recently I learned our City Manager approved the implementation of a significant change to a public fee-paid service without presenting it for a city council review or approval, thus also without ever notifying the affected public as a whole or the media of the change. Impacted residents were individually notified to comply with the […]

January 18, 2015
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CPRA

Requested Email Failed to Disclose BCC Recipients

I am a school district trustee with concerns about a fellow trustee. The district received a PRA request for an email sent from the board member's personal email to his school email. It was blind copied (bcc'd) to others. The PRA request asked for the complete email, including recipients. An affidavit, signed by the […]

November 12, 2018