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First Amendment Newsgathering

Press Credential renewal denied by CCAC

I am a journalist that covers Capitol politics. This year, my request for Capitol press credentials from the Capitol Correspondents Association of California (CCAC) was denied. Their reasoning was this: one of my publishers also has a political consulting business – the CCAC board believes payments to him violate CCAC bylaws. I am in […]

April 13, 2016
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Brown Act

School board offered settlement based on bad information; how can I set the record straight?

[…] a six-figure employee who we terminated. The settlement was designed to make the costs related to the termination finite. I supported the termination and opposed the settlement for a variety of reasons. It has come to light today, that a significant incorrect fact was given to us in closed session which I believe may […]

February 20, 2012
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CPRA

Local Agencies’ Request for Qualifications Bids

What are the legal requirements for Request for Qualifications Bids/responses to be available for the public to review? Can we use legislation in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain developers' responses to an RFQ? The agency is a local government redevelopment agency that has put out an RFQ to developers for the […]

June 14, 2009
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July 3, 2024
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CPRA

DNA records

You can make a Public Records Act request for the documents you seek to the Sheriff's department directly, using the forms on the CFAC website. It is quite possible that the Sheriff's Office will assert that the records are exempt from disclosure pursuant to Government Code section 6254 (f), which deals with investigations by […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Continuance of Public Hearings

[…] to City Council to complain about the unfair treatment of our case tonight. Our group and 200+ residents have been battling a pending project in our area for about 2 years. We are frustrated by the City's actions regarding 7 consecutive continuances they've approved for the City Council hearing. We've checked the City Council […]

June 14, 2009
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First Amendment

Changing search warrant policy

[…] search warrant policy where the affiants or other law enforcement officer who is filing the search warrant redacts information from the warrant in order to reduce the work of the exhausted and overworked court clerks. Items redacted include vehicles searched, addresses searched, and persons being searched. The clerk’s office has the redacted files for viewing.

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Brown Act Rules for Non-Profits

[…] should not have any bearing. To the extent the governing board of your non-profit organization is subject to the Brown Act under the provisions explained above, the requirements of the Brown Act would apply anytime a majority of the members of the board congregated at the same time and place to hear, discuss, or […]

June 14, 2009
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Court Records

Accessing Closed Court Records: Authoring Book

[…] that would matter to the court. Any advice as to how to proceed to get access to the records? If I wanted to hire an attorney to file a motion to unseal, is that likely to be successful, and any estimate for how much that might cost? Can you think of other avenues of approach?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Access to RFO Bids

[…] as responders to a RFO for Information Technology Consulting Services for State of California contracts, have any rights to be able to review the bids received (after notice of contract award) to find out how we scored in comparison and how we could write better responses? Also, once the contract is awarded, do we […]

June 14, 2009