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CPRA

The CPRA, Email Communication, Right to Privacy and Records Regarding One’s Self

I made a California Public Records Act request to a public school district in California for: "All Email communication regarding myself and my child." I received partial records which are not nearly complete. I am concerned about adherence to legal safeguards prohibiting school districts or any public entity from "sanitizing" requested records. Thus far, I […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Destruction of Public Records

[…] be immediately destroyed concurrent with the vote to stop recording future sessions. Aside from the obvious Brown Act violation in that it wasn't agendized, do you know the rules on retention and destruction of government records and, specifically, the limits on destroying tapes of closed sessions (These are the only existing records of these sessions).

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Charging for Electronic Records

A local hospital district claims it is "required" to charge me for access to inspect records that they claim are only available in electronic form. They have demanded a deposit of hundreds of dollars and my agreement to pay them whatever they determine the actual cost to be. When you consider that more and […]

June 14, 2009
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Court Records

Obtaining records of traffic citations

Everyday, 4 different agencies issue traffic citations in San Diego. These citations are then fed into the computers at the traffic courts.I would like to obtain weekly records from the traffic courts, containing details of all the citations issued during the previous fortnight.How could I go about ensuring that I can obtain this information […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Councilman asks intern on date via city issued cell

[…] or combinations thereof, and any record thereby created, regardless of the manner in which the record has been stored." Gov't Code section 6252(g). 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). Thus, it appears that text messages […]

November 21, 2009
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Court Records

Requesting electronic trial court records

I am trying to access a criminal court’s calendar for a 3 month period of time in 2004. Is there is a different public records request when trying to access information from the courts?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Using the CPRA to access list of alcoholic beverage licensees

[…] as to whether business email addresses which are provided to the ABC-California by alcoholic beverage license applicants are subject to disclosure under the provisions of the California Public Records Act? And if, so, how can we obtain a list of all alcoholic beverage licensees in the State of California which include the following: (1) The name […]

June 13, 2016
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CPRA School Records

What’s meant by “electronic form” documents under the CPRA?

[…] complete report. I was told the website was password protected and therefore I was not granted access. Would a document with restricted access be considered an " electronic form" if they printed it from a website that I cannot access and it looks like it is a template from the California Dept. of Education? […]

August 5, 2011
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CPRA

University fails to make good faith effort to respond to records request

[…] whether the scope of the request caused a delay in disclosure, and whether the agency was burdened by other duties that delayed its response." Motorola Communication & Electronics, Inc. v. Department of General Services, 55 Cal. App. 4th 1340, 1346 (1997) ("Based on the uncertainties inherent in Motorola's public records requests, and the timely […]

February 3, 2011
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CPRA

Documents once public now denied

[…] the names and addresses of individual medical technicians licensed by the state. The requested public records have been given to us by three different methods. 1. In electronic format by a typed document created by the State of California 2. In electronic excel format as provided medical technicians association 3. In paper copies as […]

January 12, 2011