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    Four Open-Government Battles We Are Fighting and Why They Matter

    […] taken the position that no records in its possession involving officers who work for local law enforcement agencies around the state are subject to the new disclosure requirements under Senate Bill 1421. We strongly disagree, and so we brought this suit alongside KQED, which has this report on the case. 2. FAC’s Campaign for Police Transparency, […]

    December 19, 2019

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    CPRA Police Records

    Sheriff’s office denies access to 2004 arrest documents saying too much time has elapsed

    […] There are exceptions for information the disclosure of which would interfere with an ongoing investigation or endanger a witness. However, as the sheriff's office represented, these disclosure requirements apply only to contemporaneous records. County of Los Angeles v. Superior Court, 18 Cal. App. 4th 588 (1993). It is unclear for how long past the […]

    October 4, 2011

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    CPRA Police Records

    Accessing police Internal Affairs reports

    […] is a minor, in making the report of the crime, or of any crime or incident accompanying the crime, available to the public in compliance with the requirements of this paragraph (3) Subject to the restrictions of Section 841.5 of the Penal Code and this subdivision, the current address of every individual arrested by […]

    September 20, 2010

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    CPRA

    Fees for “compiling” digital documents at UC?

    […] am trying to obtain public records at my university which are stored in electronic format. I have been told that I will be charged $.20 per page for the electronic record and, upon inquiring about this fee have been referred to the following policy by the California State University: Public Records Act? The records […]

    May 15, 2012

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    CPRA

    Records request regarding government contractors was denied on privacy grounds

    I manage a small organization that helps teach people to use public records for their protection. Recently we made a request to several municipalities for records of payments made to people doing business with the muni's. We sought to discover the names of persons or companies who were paid by the county or city […]

    July 13, 2010

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    Brown Act

    Which Meetings are Governed by the Brown Act? Bagley-Keen Act?

    […] has been fully developed by the County Mental Health Department, when that board discusses such program?  The program was approved by the California Department of Mental Health at the State level, and State-originated funds from Prop 63 (tax on millionaires to provide more money for mental health services in California) pays for the entire program.

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    What Constitutes a Local Agency

    […] agency as a full voting member of the governing body of that private corporation, limited liability company, or other entity shall be relieved from the public meeting requirements of this chapter by virtue of a change in status of the full voting member to a nonvoting member. If the entities you mention are state […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Police Records

    Traffic Citations and the CPRA

    […] of records. As you are apparently already aware, Cal. Gov. Code sec. 6254 contains a list of types of records that are not subject to the disclosure requirements of the CPRA. (1) Traffic citations: We are not aware of traffic citations being treated as the equivalent of "arrest records," which, at least in part, […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Senior Center Boards and the Brown Act

    […] agency as a full voting member of the governing body of that private corporation, limited liability company, or other entity shall be relieved from the public meeting requirements of this chapter by virtue of a change in status of the full voting member to a nonvoting member. (d) The lessee of any hospital the […]

    June 14, 2009