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    CPRA

    CPRA Request being stonewalled by their attorney

    […] Each of our requests under the CPRA have been answered by their attorney, who delays by asking for more detail. We provide detail and get another attorney letter stonewalling. We are a small organization with few resources to counter their attorney (which is paid for by taxpayer dollars!). Can you help us with advice? […]

    June 12, 2013

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    CPRA

    Access to public library records under Public Records Act

    […] solely for reference…purposes" are exempt from the Public Records Act. Cal. Gov't Code § 6254(j). Notwithstanding the above, you may want to send the library a formal letter renewing your public records request, informing them that you know the records are available, and citing to the evidence you found. Here's a link to more information […]

    April 1, 2016

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    First Amendment Social Media

    Local School Board President Banning Parents From Commenting On School’s Official Facebook Page

    […] to the school board member informing him that you believe your First Amendment rights are being violated, and demanding that he cease his unconstitutional conduct. Such a letter would likely carry more weight if you prepared it with others who are also being blocked, and who are willing to co-sign your letter. Bryan Cave […]

    September 17, 2021

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    Brown Act School Records

    State Agency I worked for is denying my records’ request, but documents do exist!

    […] (http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1435567.html). If the law does apply, the records you seek, if they exist, should be a public record. Although you are seeking an attorney to write a letter for you, our experience is that persistent letter writing by the requester her or himself can be just as effective. Bryan Cave LLP is general counsel […]

    September 13, 2013

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Board Conducting Public’s Business Via Private Emails

    […] Records Act on the FAC's website here: http://firstamendmentcoalition.org/category/resources/access-to-records/ As for enforcing the Brown Act, the Act does not specify a particular way that a violation may be cured and corrected, but presumably the legislative body could satisfy the Brown Act by reopening the process to permit public awareness of all the facts and views, […]

    June 24, 2010

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    Press Rights

    FAC Supports Bill that Would Reopen California Prisons and Jails to Journalists

    […] to the press since the mid-1990s, during the state’s tough-on-crime era of Three Strikes laws and through lawsuits challenging unsafe conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter authored by the California News Publishers Association, which is a co-sponsor of the bill along with the California Broadcasters Association, a coalition of 12 open-government and […]

    March 1, 2023

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    Cases Press Release

    Shasta County Repeals Illegal Fee Law Following FAC and ACLU Demand

    […] barrier to transparency and accountability in government. After an investigation by FAC and ACLU, the organizations, representing news outlets Shasta Scout and the Record Searchlight, sent a letter to Shasta County to repeal its ordinance. Before the letter was sent, Shasta County had billed the Record Searchlight $1,200 to fulfill a request for records […]

    May 22, 2024

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Applicability of the Public Records Act to Private Text Messages

    […] Only purely personal information unrelated to ‘the conduct of the public’s business’ could be considered exempt from this definition, i.e., the shopping list phoned from home, the letter to a public officer from a friend which is totally void of reference to governmental activities." California State Univ., Fresno Ass’n, Inc. v. Superior Court, 90 […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Blog

    Firestorm started by Vietnamese newspaper shows both owners and demonstrators in need of free speech remedial training

    […] that is the right and obligation of all credible news organizations. Subscriber response may range, depending on the gravity of the offense, from a flurry of angry letters-to-the-editor, to a the offending article blizzard of emails and faxes, demands for retraction, and calls for readers to cancel their subscriptions. Normalcy usually returns after a […]

    June 3, 2009