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Attorney Judy Alexander Joins FAC as Special Access Litigation Counsel

[…] Records Act, the Ralph M. Brown Act, the federal Freedom of Information Act and the First Amendment. While litigation has always been a big part of FAC's agenda, the addition of Alexander gives FAC the capacity to file more lawsuits challenging unlawful obstacles to access at the local level. "We are delighted to have […]

March 9, 2010
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A stunning end to the media’s 20-year losing streak in high court access cases.

[…] distinguishable, condoned limits on release of employee salaries. In the California Supreme Court the Oakland unions argued that public employee salary data are: Exempt from the disclosure requirements of the Public Records Act; rendered confidential by a separate law concerning police personnel files; and protected from disclosure by California's constitutional right of privacy. But […]
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June 3, 2009
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2007 CFAC Free Speech & Open Government Assembly

Call for Nominations for Beacon and Darkness Awards The California First Amendment Coalition is seeking nominations for its annual Beacon and Darkness awards, given in recognition of exceptional efforts, during 2006 and 2007, to advance and defend open-government and freedom of speech (Beacon Awards), and the opposite: exceptional efforts to curtail public access and […]

June 3, 2009
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Response times to CPRA requests

I served a PRA request on the district on April 6. The schools were closed for the week of April 9-12 for spring break, and the 10th was a district holiday. During 9-12, the district offices were "closed to the public" but numerous employees, including administrators, were working. On April 10, a response was […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA First Amendment Newsgathering Police Records

Investigative files and the CPRA

[…] a book about a child abduction from a few years back. The minor child was later found dead, and the perpetrator recently pleaded guilty and was sentenced for the crime in a California court. The case is closed. Now, the investigating police agency is refusing to answer my calls or put me in touch […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Individual accessing results on their own background check

[…] section 1031(d) provides that "peace officers" shall "[b]e of good moral character, as determined by a thorough background investigation."Section 1031.1 of the Government Code sets out the requirements facilitating this background investigation.In connection with conducting this investigation, law enforcement agencies often times require that the applicant waive any right they might have to review […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

CPRA fees and information in electronic form

Responding to a request for copies of all messages, emails from council members laptops to each other, especially during the periods of council meetings for the last two months, the city has responded thusly:Pursuant to the California Public Records Act Government Code 6253.9 b. 2 the following fees are associated with fulfilling your request: […]

June 14, 2009
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Bagley-Keene Act CPRA

The California Bar and CPRA

[…] California Supreme Court has stated as follows: "[Government Code] Section 6001 . . . provides: 'No law of this State restricting, or prescribing a mode of procedure for the exercise of powers of state public bodies or state agencies . . . shall be applicable to the State Bar, unless the Legislature expressly so […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

School documents and lost records

Generally, are there any school district budget documents, reports, salary compensation information, etc. that are not accessible to the public? I put in a Request for Public Records to view a permit plan and Building & Safety lost the plans within one week of receiving them. What recourse do I have?

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act CPRA

Regional Centers and the CPRA

The mere fact that a nonprofit is created by state action or contracts with a state agency would not subject it to the requirements of the CPRA. As you suggest in your inquiry, the CPRA applies to some nonprofit corporations if the governing body of the nonprofit corporation is subject to the Brown Act. […]

June 14, 2009