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CPRA

Should I be able to get meta data of emails and calendars under the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance or Public Records Act?

[…] anonymously requested from various San Francisco agencies, under the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance and California Public Records Act, full email and calendar records, specifically in the original electronic format the city agencies hold them. While some agencies do indeed produce their emails/calendar entries in the native electronic formats like .msg, .eml, .ics, etc. which […]

April 1, 2021
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CPRA

Obtaining records without fees?

How do I obtain a public record if I can not afford the price due to economic problems? Can the S.F.P.D refuse to give me the records in electronic from?

June 14, 2009
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Cases

Amicus Briefs Digest, Sept. 2017

[…] perhaps only a lawyer could love (but which is actually quite important), the brief argues that the government may not charge all costs for collecting and assembling electronic records, but rather are limited to the "costs of duplication" they are permitted to charge for non-electronic records under the CPRA. The plain language of the CPRA […]
September 27, 2017
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CPRA

How to Request Information Stored in a Database?

How does the California Public Records Act handle information stored in a database rather than a specific record (e.g. an existing, stand-alone document)? For example, if I'm looking for historical financial information on a public works project at my city, the data might be in a database and would require city staff to run […]

March 11, 2020
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CPRA

How Can I Access Records From The California Department of Corrections Regarding High-Profile Offenders?

[…] or other law exempts them from disclosure. The CPRA applies regardless of the physical form or characteristic of the record, which means that information retained in an electronic format must be made available in any electronic form in which the agency keeps the information. Gov’t Code section 6253.9(a). You can read about the CPRA, […]

September 21, 2021
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CPRA

City says it can’t fulfill CPRA request for a month

[…] were listed as an expenditure? Just like the city of Bel, the payments aren’t matching the reports. Now the City is telling me that since they need to get records from off-site location, they need at least a month to answer the request. I denied the extension request and notified that I’m exhausting administrative remedy.

May 10, 2012
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Blog

Short Takes: government email, historical police records, fee awards against requesters

[…] message that is clearly about government business? The Federal Records Act amendment, at section 2911, says that the employee is now required either to copy "an official electronic messaging account . . . . in the original . . . transmission of the record" or, within 20 days, to forward "a complete copy of […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
January 21, 2015
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Brown Act CPRA

Councilmembers texting during meeting a Brown Act violation?

[…] must be disclosed unless a specific provision of the Act or other law exempts them from disclosure. This would seem to include messages sent and received from electronic devices, which would fall into the PRA's broad definition of "writings." Gov't Code § 6252(g). While there is no published, citable decision that I am aware […]

May 23, 2013
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CPRA

No oversight when councilmembers compile emails in response to record requests

Is it a violation of the Public Records Act for public officials to compile potentially incriminating electronic documents on their own, in response to PRA requests, with no actual oversight? I just learned that when a Public Records Act request is submitted to the City Manager of my hometown, for potentially incriminating electronic documents […]

November 8, 2013
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CPRA

Third Party Notification

[…] plans, compilations, program devices, formulas, designs, prototypes, methods, techniques, processes, procedures, programs, or codes, whether tangible or intangible, and whether or how stored, compiled, or memorialized physically, electronically, graphically, photographically, or in writing if: (A) the owner thereof has taken reasonable measures to keep such information secret; and (B) the information derives independent economic […]

June 14, 2009