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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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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 First Amendment Police Records

Police say daily crime logs can’t be released to the public

[…] issued. The log is maintained by a patrol officer for 24-hour periods between 4 a.m. and 4 a.m. and through CPRA request have successfully obtained past logs electronically in .doc or .pdf format. However, the department Public Information Officer (PIO )has refused to provide the daily log when requested claiming they need to be […]

June 17, 2016
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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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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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Court Records

Civil Harassment Restraining Order Filings; Non-Internet Accessible

The County Superior Court maintains an "Open Access" internet database system for access to court records and filings, including dockets in all civil and criminal cases and downloads of all filed and imaged pleadings and other filed documents in civil cases -- with one exception. All dockets and imaged documents are publicly inaccessible for […]

June 14, 2009
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Newsgathering

Audio Recording, Meetings

[…] is useful to you. Penal Code 632. (a) Every person who, intentionally and without the consent of all parties to a confidential communication, by means of any electronic amplifying or recording device, eavesdrops upon or records the confidential communication, whether the communication is carried on among the parties in the presence of one another […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

How can my records request meet deadline if staff assigned is on vacation?

I made a Public Records Request and received confirmation, but the attorney wrote that my request for is too complex to release now. I sent a reply and learned that the attorney left on vacation for a week. I don't think there's an I'm-on-vacation exception in the CPRA. What do I do now?

September 11, 2015
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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
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Brown Act CPRA

Board Conducting Public’s Business Via Private Emails

[…] past two years.I do not expect to receive them, for a multitude of excuses. But, going forward, what is the process by which a Board can communicate electronically and still comply with the Brown Act? What are the rules? What process could one use to require the Board to make those emails a part […]

June 24, 2010