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    Brown Act CPRA

    Community College Senate, Listservs, and Public Record

    […] pedagogical issues surrounding the faculty. Currently, around 80 faculty out of the 400 employed are subscribed to the listserv and are able to send and receive messages electronically to/from the whole group.  Among the subscribers is a quorum of the college's Academic Senate. Before subscribing, even just to receive messages, one must go through […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    How does the CPRA deal with emails between elected officials

    Can email sent by a California Special District elected official to other directors or the district office concerning district business be subject to examination using the Public Records Act? Would it make a difference if he used his personal computer to send an email to another elected official?

    August 21, 2010

  • Latest News

    Blog Cases

    Victory: California Appeal Court Orders Records Unsealed

    […] issued an important opinion affirming the public's right of access to court records. The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles sided with FAC and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, finding that records in a civil case had been improperly hidden from the public. A unanimous three-judge panel cited the common law and constitutional […]

    April 15, 2020

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    Press Release

    California Supreme Court Stops Cities From Charging Steep Fees for Video Redactions

    The California Supreme Court today issued an opinion preventing government agencies from charging the public for editing and compiling police body camera footage and other electronic records before the records are released. The First Amendment Coalition and the California News Publishers Association filed an amicus brief in the case, National Lawyers Guild v. City of […]

    May 28, 2020

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Electronic Filing of Campaign Disclosure Data

    As you may know, under the California Public Records Act ("PRA"), Govt. Code section 6250 et seq., records in the possession of state or local public agencies are presumed to be public unless an exemption to disclosure applies.   Here, because the City discloses the street addresses at issue when a direct request is made, […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Online Sheriff’s Blotter

    […] this statement: "Due to security concerns, we have discontinued posting detailed inmate information on this website. Information required to be disclosed under Government Code section 6254(f)(1) of the California Public Records Act may be obtained by calling Inmate Records at (714) 647-4666." At the time I complained about this, since it was much slower than seeing the information […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Posts

    A Guide to 2023 Open Meetings Law Changes

    […] the new law, a state body that holds a meeting through teleconferencing and allows members of the public to observe and address the meeting telephonically or otherwise electronically would satisfy any requirement that the state body allow members of the public to attend the meeting and offer public comment. AB/SB 189 requires that each […]

    February 16, 2023

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    Blog Cases

    FAC, EFF and Wired win unsealing of documents in hip-hop website seizure case

    […] unsealed records related to a government shutdown of a music blog/website, Dajaz1.com, for suspicion of copyright piracy. The unsealing had been requested by FAC, Wired, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Using a forfeiture authority usually invoked to seize cars and houses in drug cases, federal authorities had seized the hip hop website, then avoided […]

    May 16, 2012