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  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Agency claims my CPRA requests via email are “not public records act request”

    In response to an emailed request for public records, the local agency responded that my "series of emails were not a public records act request." In turn, they withheld the requested information. Of course, it could be that I've been not asking for the right thing in the appropriate way?  I've been requesting information […]

    March 30, 2012

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    CPRA

    Fees assessed for electronic data

    I’m trying to obtain records for the LA United School District’s spending for 2010 in digital format, but the LA USD Office of the General Counsel is asking for 25 cents per page to send the digital information to us. They’ve explained that this is based on the usual fee rate for pages that […]

    January 12, 2012

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    How long are routine County surveillance records archived?

    […] footage from the wrong incident. The data that indicates the date and time of the footage was left out, perhaps intentionally. I am still attempting to retrieve the proper footage to pursue my case. Do you know how long California Counties archive records from police dash-cam footage? How would I go about pursuing this information?

    May 6, 2016

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    Blog

    Wanted by the FBI: Journalists’ phone records showing calls to and from confidential sources.

    […] a phone company or ISP information about their customers. On the say so of FBI higher-ups alone, the FBI can now demand "toll billing records" and " electronic communications transactional records" for any "person or entity." National Security Letters are not subject to a warrant requirement or other judicial supervision. Requested phone records must […]

    June 2, 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 Police Records

    Are police notes following an auto accident public records?

    […] any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics." Govt. Code § 7920.530(a).  A "writing" is "any handwriting, typewriting, printing, photostating, photographing, photocopying, transmitting by electronic mail or facsimile, and every other means of recording upon any tangible thing any form of communication or representation, including letters, words, pictures, sounds, or symbols, […]

    March 6, 2025

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Text-Messaging Public Records

    […] the SF Examiner that Mayor Newsom has refused to turn over Hawaii-based communications related to his conversations re: the Busan oil spill.  He claims that the phone records and text messages are not public record because he used his personal iPhone and has not submitted a request for reimbursement from the City. I have […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Applicability of the Public Records Act to Private Text Messages

    […] in the Examiner that Mayor Newsom has refused to turn over Hawaii-based communications related to his conversations re: the Busan oil spill.  He claims that the phone records and text messages are not public record because he used his personal iPhone and has not submitted a request for reimbursement from the City. I have […]

    June 14, 2009

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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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    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 […]

    January 21, 2015