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Taxpayers Going Postal Over Public Employee Pensions, Perks. Unions’ miscalculation: Opting for secrecy.

[…] to legislators. Public unions in California turned distrustful of voters and ambivalent about government transparency. In the mid-1990s unions backed improvements to the Brown Act, California's open meeting law, but also inserted a provision assuring that the public would have no access to collective bargaining agreements negotiated by cities and counties---often representing 70% or […]
- Free Expression
June 11, 2010
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FAC Receives $100k Gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies

[…] Newmark Philanthropies for this generous gift, which will allow us to continue and expand our fight for speech and press freedoms, public access to government records and meetings, and civic engagement," said FAC Executive Director David Snyder. A democracy can only thrive when the entire public participates, and is included, in a society, and […]
- Free Expression
- Press Freedom
June 20, 2019
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Brown Act

Does Brown Act allow School District, City to negotiate millions in fees in closed session?

November 25, 2015
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CPRA

Water Usage Records

June 14, 2009
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A stunning end to the media’s 20-year losing streak in high court access cases.

[…] years. Clearly, the Times’ attorney’s fees related to those two appeals should be the responsibility of the unions. For more than two decades, the media have been serial losers in access cases in the California Supreme Court. The watershed IFPTE decision marks a welcome and stunning end to that streak. ---- Peter Scheer, a […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Sunshine Week: Transparency Critical During Public Health Emergency

[…] members of the press to use: 1. Free Legal Hotline Lawyers answer questions about access to public records and your right to attend and participate in government meetings in California; access to court documents and proceedings; and freedom of speech and freedom of the press protections. Reporters on deadline can also contact us at […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
March 16, 2020
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CPRA

DNA records

I am the webmaster of a site tracking the case of a serial rapist/killer. I would like to gain access to the crime files of a local Sheriff's department regarding the killer. The statute of limitations on the rapes committed by this person expired over a decade ago. There is DNA information in the […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

CPRA Request being stonewalled by their attorney

[…] their books and we are suspicious of many of their transactions. We started requesting records under the CPRA in November 2012. We have attended their public Board meetings and have been met with hostility and stonewalling. Each of our requests under the CPRA have been answered by their attorney, who delays by asking for […]

June 12, 2013
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Press Rights

Governor Brown decides fate of open-government bills

[…] including providing public records electronically when possible. Another legislative report on electronic public records isn't necessary." AB 1723. A bill to require live video transmissions of the meetings of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the Trustees of the California State University and the California Postsecondary Education Commission. Governor Brown approved […]
October 12, 2012
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2007 Open Government Legislative Roundup: Some successes and some failures

[…] the child under state care. SB 343, introduced by Senator Gloria Negrete-McLeod, (D-Montclair) amends the Brown Act to require legislative bodies to make available staff analyses of meeting agenda items at the same time as the agenda is released. Prior to this legislation these records were only available through a Public Records Act request. […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
June 3, 2009