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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

    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

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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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    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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    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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    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

    Is It Legal To Share Public Documents Received From One School District With Another School District?

    […] and reasonable attorney’s fees in defending the lawsuit. Cal. Gov. Code § 6259(d). If you would like to reference additional information regarding PRA requests, including a sample letter template, you can do so here. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In […]

    September 24, 2021

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    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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    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