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CPRA

Costs soar for City Council meeting DVDs

I know that cities cannot charge for staff time when it comes to making photocopies in public records requests. Does this extend to DVDs as well? It appears we are being charged staff time, so DVDs now cost $18each. Previously I was able to get them free by bringing in a blank DVD disc, […]

September 5, 2011
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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
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Brown Act

City Councilmembers texting each other while deliberating

[…] 84 Ops. Cal. Atty. Gen. 30 (2001).) If two council members communicate with each other (including by text or email) regarding the item outside of an officially noticed council meeting, and the city council is made up of five members total, then the Brown Act's prohibition against such communications is probably not implicated (since […]

July 10, 2014
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CPRA

Using CPRA to learn rules governing Resort Improvement District #1

[…] The provisions of the Public Records Act are found at Govt Code sections 6250 et seq. You can also find general information about the law and its requirements on the First Amendment Coalition's website (https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/cpra-primer-2023-update/) As a general matter you need only request the specific records you seek from the agency. Your request need […]

July 22, 2013
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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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Brown Act CPRA

Redaction of investigative report

[…] council member. Is not the client entitled to the entire file without redactions? City council members have complained about the heavy redactions. Does the Brown Act require discussion of this type of thing in closed session? I am unsure if anything applies to investigation on council members and investigation started without notification to council members.

August 12, 2014
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CPRA

When government outsources program are documents public?

I have asked the city for a particular statistical report about their red light camera system. They have refused to provide the records, and have ignored my offer to pay (per GC 6253.9(b)). The requested report is one which a city can obtain by going to the website of their red light camera vendor, […]

October 10, 2011
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Brown Act

Proprietary information in the public record

[…] force that it was subject to the Brown Act. I recorded the public meetings on video, and uploaded to YouTube part of a presentation by a consultant for Taser Intl., given at one of the meetings. Now YouTube has removed the video, as a result of a third-party claim of copyright infringement. I assume […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Informal Meetings and the Brown Act

[…] and the communication is among a majority of the members of the board, resulting in a collective concurrence as to action that will be taken on an agenda item, this is probably a violation of the Brown Act. As the Attorney General has explained: "In construing these terms, one should be mindful of the […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act First Amendment

Elected Officials Right to Public Comment

[…] assuming you are referring to a situation where a member of the City Council made remarks during a public comment period. The Brown Act provides that "[e]very agenda for regular meetings shall provide an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the legislative body on any item of interest to the public, […]

June 14, 2009