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  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Latest News

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Latest News

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Can fees be charged for existing electronic/digital records?

    […] Group sent me an invoice in regards to my PRA request for copies of their three existing contracts with Cal Fire. These records already exist in an electronic/ digital format. There is no reason to charge me a fee for them to be delivered to me via email. They just have to be uploaded […]

    August 30, 2016