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  • Latest News

    Blog FAC News

    Moving On

    […] Directors that I will be stepping down at the end of the year. I will stay involved with FAC in significant (albeit non-managerial) ways---starting with our search for a new executive director. FAC is in a very strong position. Our programs are firing on all cylinders. In the coming weeks we will be filing […]

    June 25, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    Court Records

    Blocking Personal Information from Public View for Safety

    If the disclosure of personal information about you would jeopardize your safety, that would likely be grounds for records containing such information to be withheld by government agencies.  It might be difficult, however, to discover any public record that might contain such information.  If you are aware of a particular record that contains information […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Prohibiting a citizen from contacting a public agency

    […] It is alleged that this other person and I take department information and "twist it." Both us have been prohibited from contacting any DPLU employee directly, except for the designated PRA contact person. As a result of my PRA request related to the PRA contact person's job, I found that it consists primarily of […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Agendas and sufficiency of “brief general descriptions”

    In accordance with Section 2.20.140(B)(3) of the Purchasing Ordinance, the City Manager is allowed to waive the request for proposal procedure and approve master professional service agreements with two firms pp to $100,000. I asked that the item be pulled and rescheduled because it did not describe the services (HR/Personnel) that the contracts were […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Latest News

    Advocacy Blog

    San José releases trove of mayor’s emails in FAC public records case

    The fight for transparency continues Friends, Earlier this year, wefiled a lawsuitto bring more transparency to San José City Hall. The lawsuit seeks to enforce the California Public Records Act after city officials failed to turn over emails, text messages and other documents we believe the public was entitled to see. This month, we […]

    October 17, 2022

  • Latest News

    Blog

    Celebrate Sunshine Week in California–Hold Public Officials Accountable for Access to Information

    […] to disclose the names and salaries of public employees making more than $100,000 a year. The California Supreme Court is considering that case. There's no good reason for the public officials in any of these cases to be fighting against disclosure. They are public officials doing the public's business, and being paid pretty well […]

    June 2, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act CPRA

    A Board member vs. public member rights under PRA

    […] a board member I must follow different rules then the public. I have been told I must make my request in writing to the board chair, and then he would put it on next month's agenda for discussion. So far, I haven’t found anything of relevance in the Public Records Act. What are your thoughts?

    March 23, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    The city decided in closed session to let Wal Mart pick up legal tab for lawsuit

    […] the city against the suit; and that they had also agreed in this same closed session to allow Wal Mart to cover the city's full legal costs for the suit. Although I understand the city's need and right to both discuss the litigation and tally the vote in secret, I do NOT understand why […]

    August 20, 2012

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    CPRA

    Request for sheriff’s homeless policy leads to trouble

    […] by the County Sheriff in conjunction with numerous other county agencies. The Sheriff's Department responded that they had "been unable to locate responsive documents and as such cannot comply therewith." In addition, the sheriff's department then engaged in retaliatory intimidation, sending a deputy to question the person whose name appears on the request for information.

    March 30, 2010