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CPRA

Electronic Filing of Campaign Disclosure Data

[…] available to members of the public who contact the city clerk’s office directly to request paper copies or e-mailed copies. Given that campaign finance data is an official public record, is it legal for the city to require members of the public to jump through extra hoops in order to obtain the full unredacted data?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

E-Filing of Campaign Finance Data,0

[…] available to members of the public who contact the city clerk’s office directly to request paper copies or e-mailed copies. Given that campaign finance data is an official public record, is it legal for the city to require members of the public to jump through extra hoops in order to obtain the full unredacted data?

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Brown Act and Homeowners Associations

[…] governing body of the private entity includes a member of the legislative body of the agency, which is appointed to that governing body by the agency. Thus, for example, if the HOA was created by a public entity and constituted as some sort of public district, the board or other relevant body would be […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Accessing bids for public contracts

I have submitted a request for public records to an irrigation district, consisting of several documents but most importantly a copy of a publicly read proposal turned in my another contractor. The irrigation district’s general counsel refused the request and quoted Times Mirror v. Superior Court. Public bids are read aloud at the time of […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Police Records

Access to transcripts of 911 calls

Under the California Public Records Act, state and local agencies are generally required to respond to a request for public records within 10 days of the receipt of the request. If you have not already done so, you should probably submit a written request for the records you seek. It's probably best to direct […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Access to coroner’s report

[…] have become increasingly sensitive to concerns about personal privacy, and both private parties and public agencies now routinely invoke the California Constitution’s privacy provision as a justification for non-disclosure. I am unaware of any authority that addresses a claim that disclosure of coroner’s reports in general would violate the constitutional right of privacy. As […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Attempting to access phone call recordings made from jail

I want to request a copy of the recordings or transcripts of phone calls placed by an inmate at the County Jail. Are there cases or laws that I can use in my request to argue for releasing this media?

January 13, 2016
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CPRA

911 transcripts

As a general rule, any paper and electronic documents collected, owned, or maintained by a state or local agency is a public record for the purposes of the California Public Records Act, Government Code section 6250 et seq., and is available for public inspection and copying unless one of the Act's exemptions applies. If […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Newsgathering Police Records

Can I access driver ID’s from traffic-stop police reports?

I am working on a story about traffic stops and would like to request the city's police department for records related to about 10 incidents involving drivers with suspended licenses (I have the incident numbers). But before I make my request: Can the police department deny me accessing the name, address or other fields […]

April 16, 2015
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CPRA Police Records

How can I gain access to my UC police records?

I am seeking to obtain my records from the University of CA. (1) I received the following response to my request for supplemental records to two police reports. An attorney who specializes in FOIA requests advised that the following language may not constitute a legitimate denial to my records requests. He advised me to […]

September 19, 2013