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    FAC News

    Now Hiring: FAC Senior Staff Attorney / Legal Director

    […] Act, the federal Freedom of Information Act and the First Amendment; Conducting and/or managing fact investigations;  Drafting and/or supervising the drafting of pleadings, amicus briefs and advocacy letters; Litigating in state and federal court, including managing and meeting deadlines; propounding discovery; communicating with opposing counsel; etc; Identifying, recruiting and managing outside counsel; Managing FAC’s […]

    October 14, 2021

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    CPRA

    Employee Information and the CPRA

    […] said, the employees could have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Whether "Teamsters" is right or wrong has been subject to some debate. But even if it is correct, "Teamsters" would not seem to help state employees because the state has consistently released this information. For example, we are aware of at least one newspaper […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Blog

    When mayors evade disclosure rules by using personal email accounts for city business, it is democracy that suffers. We’ll know soon if the courts, like the public, have lost patience.

    […] public record depends on its content only, and that the city possessed the records through the mayor as the city's agent. The Superior Court decision is clearly correct. The mayor's possession of the contested emails is imputed to the city and establishes legal possession by the city in the same way that the city […]

    February 6, 2014

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    Court Records CPRA

    How Do I Submit CPRA Requests to a CA County Court?

    […] recommend directing the request to the court’s executive officer, who can then decide who in his or her office should handle the request.  A sample PRA request letter can be found on the FAC’s website here.  Of course, you would want to replace any references to the PRA with references to Rule 10.500. Bryan Cave […]

    June 15, 2018

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    CPRA

    Public Availability and Destruction of Temporary or Handwritten Notes

    […] suggested that I re-submit a new, formal PRA request asking for the "binder notes" from our County Public Works Director. So, I used aversion of the sample letter provided on cfac.org, as suggested, where it reads: "In any event, please provide a signed notification citing the legal authorities on which you rely if you […]

    June 14, 2009

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    The author of requested emails assigned to fulfill PRA request

    […] individual tasked with locating the relevant records and her relationship to those records. You can find more information about the Public Records Act, including a sample request letter, at the First Amendment Coalition web site at http://firstamendmentcoalition.org/category/resources/access-to-records/. Holme Roberts & Owen LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC […]

    August 5, 2011

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    Blog FAC News

    FAC Seeks Nominations for 2017 Free Speech & Open Government Award

    […] Annual Winter Meeting of the California Press Foundation, Nov. 30th, in San Francisco. Please send nominations, supported by links to online documents or written materials such as letters and newspaper clippings to explain the nature of the performance, service or activity to be saluted, its context and its consequences. Self-nominations are encouraged. (Don’t be […]

    September 7, 2017

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    CPRA Newsgathering

    Accessing 911 Calls and Police Reports

    […] writing (within 10 days) and specify the exemptions to disclosure on which they are relying.   A sample written request can be found at the following link: https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/cpra-primer/sample-cpra-request- letter/ The PRA exemption at issue for the records you seek is found at Government Code section 6254(f), which exempts from disclosure records of law enforcement complaints […]

    June 14, 2009