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    CPRA

    CPRA not denied, but never produced by agency

    […] letter, at the First Amendment Coalition website at https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/category/resources/access-to-records/. Holme Roberts & Owen LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation. Access to Records

    February 2, 2011

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    Brown Act

    Voting on Multiple Budgets

    Redevelopment Agency agenda asks for 1 vote on 11 budgets for 11 redevelopment project areas. Does this conform to the Brown Act or should there be a 11 votes ?

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Closed Session Performance Evaluations

    On the City Council agenda it states under closed session: Pursuant to Government Code Section 54957 and 54957.6, the City Council will meet with the City Administrator, to hold performance evaluations and consider the salaries for the Director of Parks and Trees, the Director of Community Development and Public Works... All department heads are […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Councilman is rude to speakers making public comments. What is our legal recourse?

    […] local city council’s own code of conduct, which are somewhat outside the scope of our expertise at this hotline. We can only answer general questions about open government, open records, and the First Amendment. We note that the Brown Act requires that the public be afforded the right to speak at meetings where the […]

    September 18, 2020

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    How Trump’s War on Free Speech Threatens the Republic

    […] subpoenaed and seized phone records from more than 100 Associated Press reporters, potentially in violation of the department’s own policies. Thanks to the rampant over classification of government documents, Obama’s pursuit of whistleblowers meant that even relatively mundane disclosures could have serious, even criminal, consequences for the leaker. Under Obama, McClatchy noted in 2013, […]

    June 6, 2017

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    First Amendment Newsgathering

    Media Leak Investigations and the First Amendment

    […] development praised by press-freedom groups. The following live panel discussion took place days before the memo was released. Journalists’ ability to protect confidential sources and keep the government from accessing their unpublished notes and other communications records is key to newsgathering and a core part of press freedom. That’s why recent revelations that the U.S. Justice […]

    August 13, 2024

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    Is it normal to receive multiple CPRA extensions for months?

    […] be made available." Govt. Code § 7922.535(a). Therefore, although the CPRA establishes deadlines for an agency’s initial response to a request, it "does not specify when records must be produced to a requesting party." Motorola Communication & Electronics, Inc. v. Department of General Services, 55 Cal. App. 4th 1340, 1349 (1997). In "unusual circumstances," […]

    April 24, 2025

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    Behind the Headlines: How EdSource Put Sunshine on Policing in California Schools

    […] faced nearly a triple level of blockage on this. With limited exceptions, police in California have very wide discretion to provide nothing under the California Public Records Act, largely because of  the investigatory records exemption,* which is very broad and almost never expires. Additionally, schools are subject to educational privacy rules, so what happens […]

    October 14, 2024

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    FAC hosts training sessions for the press and public on a variety of open government and First Amendment topics. Below are examples of sessions we offer, which can be conducted virtually or in person, and feature experts in First Amendment, public access, and newsgathering issues. If you would like to bring FAC to your […]

    June 12, 2024