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    CPRA

    How do I enforce my right under the CPRA to inspect records?

    If I am understanding your inquiry correctly, you are not requesting a copy of the manual in its entirety, but rather are asking the healthcare district to provide you with access to the manual so you may inspect it in person (presumptively at the district offices). Under the PRA, there are technically two ways […]

    June 7, 2017

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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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    FAC Seeks Nominations for 2018 Free Speech & Open Government Award

    […] Annual Winter Meeting of the California Press Foundation, Dec. 6, 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 […]

    August 15, 2018

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    CPRA Police Records

    I Am The Victim of A Crime. Does the CPRA Allow Me Access Police Reports on the Incident?

    […] procedures…or security files compiled by any other state or local police agency, or any investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local agency for correctional, law enforcement, or licensing purposes."  However, there is certain information that police are required to release. First, victims are entitled to certain information related to a […]

    January 9, 2020

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    CPRA Police Records

    How can I get the police dept. to release a shooting report?

    […] or security files compiled by any other state or local police agency, or any investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local agency for correctional, law enforcement, or licensing purposes."Govt. Code § 6254(f) (see below in green for entire text of provision). This exemption is fairly broad and generally makes it […]

    September 30, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Can criminal background checks on county candidates be kept confidential?

    […] on other officeholders nor does it plan to start doing them for all candidates. It did, however, conduct such a check in 1989 when it last made an appointment to the clerk-recorder position. Is the county's interpretation correct? Can the county keep the results of a background check on a person holding elected office confidential?

    May 1, 2013

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    Blog

    NSA may have adhered to legal rules, but legal rules can’t keep up with changes in surveillance technology

    […] likely to conclude that the agency was fairly scrupulous in its adherence to legal boundaries, and that its overstepping was infrequent, mostly unintentional and, in any event, corrected by the FISA Court in subsequent oversight proceedings. All this will reconfirm the truism that the legal system cannot possibly keep up with changes in technology. […]

    November 25, 2013

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    CPRA

    Autopsies and CPRA

    […] by stating that you are requesting any records that would identify individuals who attended autopsies.  A sample PRA request can be found on the CFAC website: https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/cpra-primer/sample-cpra-request- letter/ Although I am not aware of any per se exemption to disclosure that would apply to the records you are seeking, the agency may nevertheless argue […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Naturalization records

    Under the California Public Records Act ("PRA"), the public has a right to inspect and obtain copies of documents collected or maintained by state or local agencies.  The PRA requires agencies to provide you with the documents requested, or notify you that your request has been denied, within 10 days.  (Gov't Code § 6253).  If […]

    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