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    Legal Hotline

    The Legal Hotline gives users quick, free access to FAC’s lawyers for questions about access to public records and your right to attend government meetings in California; access to court documents and proceedings in California and federal courts; and First Amendment protections for freedom of speech and freedom of the press. For reporters on […]

    June 12, 2024

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    Newsgathering Police Records

    Can a news photographer be threatened with arrest while covering a protest?

    […] form your inquiry whether the work being done is on private property -- without permission of the property owner, then you could be removed from the property for any reason. If the area where you were was ordinarily public property but had been cordoned off or closed to the public because the police had […]

    February 6, 2014

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    CPRA

    City avoiding disclosure of personal email

    […] press to have received email regarding a particular issue. Our PRA requesting those email have been rejected by the city because they do not have email accounts for council members. However on the city website the link to contact council members is the council member’s personal email account. If the city is listing the […]

    January 13, 2012

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    CPRA Police Records

    Seeking 911 records for wrongful death

    […] See Open Government Guide, Access to Public Records and Meetings in Louisiana, Sixth Edition (2011), Section (IV)(N)(3). In any event, you should probably submit a written request for the records or tapes that you seek. Bryan Cave LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding […]

    March 28, 2016

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    CPRA

    Appeal of Superior Court Denial of Writ of Mandate Under Public Records Act

      I am litigating a public records act petition for writ of mandate in Superior Court. The tentative initially went in my favor, but after oral argument, the court reversed its position and denied my petition outright. I am considering an appeal. Are appeals of petitions for writ of mandate under the PRA discretionary, […]

    April 10, 2018

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    Court Records

    CA Supreme Court denied my petition and I demand the right to know why

    A petition for review to the CA Supreme Court is assigned to a legal staff who drafts a "conference memorandum" which summarizes the case facts, outlines the issues, and makes a recommendation to the court whether the case presents sufficiently important issues for review. Under the "petition clause" of the constitution I feel that […]

    April 13, 2012

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    First Amendment

    Posting Links on Neighborhood Council Websites

    My issue is in the stakeholder councils", i.e. "neighborhood councils" (see www.freedomadvocates.org for background). I have attempted to post some informational links on the Neighborhood Council website to offer factual information about redevelopment, stakeholder councils along with the other links they have there, e.g. political party meetings, neighborhood organizations, and "helpful" city agencies but […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Political Reform Act case records

    I asked our District Attorney for information allowed by Gov Code 6254 (f)(2) on Political Reform Act cases. She gave only closed cases, saying giving me anything on open cases would endanger the investigation. Do you agree?

    June 14, 2009

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    First Amendment

    Murals on private property

    […] wall murals beyond all municipal regulation. If the city could demonstrate, for example, that the mural posed a traffic hazard, or that the building on which it appeared failed to comply with structural or fire safety requirements," or was obscene, or was primarily commercial speech ("COLD BEER, COME INSIDE"), then the regulation might be upheld.

    June 14, 2009