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Are jail visitor sign-in logs public documents?
November 17, 2009
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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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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. […]June 3, 2009
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Can new board members ask for past closed session update?
February 20, 2011
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FAC partners with Online News Association to assist digital journalists
[…] by lawyers—all experts in media law—at Bryan Cave, a national law firm. Their answers, delivered by email, cover questions about freedom of speech, journalists’ rights, freedom-of-information, open meeting laws, access to court proceedings, and related First Amendment matters. The Legal Hotline is a free service, underwritten by FAC’s donors. Under the new arrangement between […]May 19, 2016
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Can I access attorney’s retainer agreement and invoices via the Public Records Act?
[…] I sent my former PRA request again and added the new item. Hearing nothing again, I inquired; the secretary said she had been sick. At the board meeting last week, she said she would scan the requested invoices and email them to me on. Nothing came in–I sent an email stating I could come […]July 2, 2015
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Introducing Our Police Transparency Guide
[…] FAC’s body of free, educational resources. FAC has published information about the California Public Records Act, the Ralph M. Brown Act, the Bagley-Keene Act, both governing public meetings in California, and various sample letters, including one for using the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA letter here). FAC has also published a sample PRA […]October 6, 2020
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2007 FAC Awards: CFAC Names Six Award Winners, One Big Loser
[…] open up selected police disciplinary files to public view, to establish journalists’ right to interview California prisoners, to increase access to public records and to improve open meeting laws. CFAC is an award-winning, nonprofit public interest organization dedicated to advancing free speech, more open and accountable government, and public participation in civic affairs. CFAC's […]June 3, 2009
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Supervisors multi-tasking during public comment
Although the Brown Act does require that local agency governing board meetings be open to the public, and that the public be permitted to address the board regarding any item within the agency's jurisdiction, Govt. Code section 54954.3(a), the Brown Act does not require that any Board member pay attention to those comments. Holme […]December 21, 2011
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Administrative hearing transcripts
[…] the California Code is that a transcript of administrative hearings must be made. 2. As a party to the action, and also because this was an open meeting, that transcript should be available to me. 3. This was not an attorney-client relationship but one of an adjudicator and plaintiffs/defendants. Am I missing something? What is […]June 14, 2009