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If China unplugs Google, it will be the first time China’s people will know what they are not being allowed to see. This should give the censors pause.

BY PETER SCHEER--Google's high-stakes confrontation with China's government has entered a new, and uncertain, phase. Making good on its threat to cease censorship of search results on its China-based site, Google.cn, Google has begun redirecting users in China to its uncensored Chinese-language site based in Hong Kong, google.com.hk. China's censors now face a difficult […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 24, 2010
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California AG Xavier Becerra and the Thick Blue Wall of Police Secrecy

By DAVID SNYDER—California Attorney General Xavier Becerra appears to believe there are two sets of rules about government transparency—one for his office, and another for everyone else. Back in 2017, when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refused to disclose public records about EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s potential ethical conflicts, Becerra promptly sued under the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 6, 2019
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A stunning end to the media’s 20-year losing streak in high court access cases.

Watershed CA Supreme Court decision is major win for government transparency By Peter Scheer America's highest courts are justly criticized for avoiding hard issues. The judicial fetish for deciding cases on the narrowest possible grounds yields opinions so limited and unambitious in scope that they often raise more questions, and generate more legal disputes, […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Behind the Headlines: How CBS Reporter Julie Watts Is Pushing for Police Transparency

[…] officers were not wearing body cameras, but Roseville PD officers were. And that agency refused to release more than four 39-second clips from their officers’ cameras. Open- government lawyers, like FAC’s David Loy, and lawmakers raised concerns that the decisions to withhold public records could have a ripple effect across the state and impact […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 27, 2024
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Brown Act

Public comment limited to three items on Water Quality Board agenda

[…] not already been considered at a meeting where members of the public had been allowed to comment. While the spirit of open meetings and public access to government deliberation may have been better served by allowing the public to comment on the permit as a whole, if the criteria set forth in § 54954.3 […]

April 14, 2010
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CPRA

City Clerk’s obligation to the CPRA

[…] your question to be whether the City Clerk has the obligation to comply with requests for public records in accordance with the California Public Records Act, California Government Code sections 6250 et seq.If my understanding is accurate, the answer is yes, the City Clerk must comply with the Act. The California Public Records Act […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act Newsgathering

Special Meetings and Media Notice

[…] below for text of entire section). Accordingly, any local newspaper of general circulation or radio or television station that has requested notice of special meetings in writing must be notified in advance of a special meeting, but if the media outlet has not requested such notice, the Brown Act does not require notification to […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Police Records

Disclosure of applicant information under PRA

We're trying to request the applications of taxicab applicants to see if the regulatory body is discriminating. The public agency has redacted most of the applications for fear of a misdemeanor in releasing "convictions," (e.g. the agency maintains its own allegations of infractions and the applicants voluntarily submitted their place of doing business and their […]

March 22, 2016
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Brown Act

Does the Brown Act allow closed sessions to appoint legal firm?

As you are aware, California Government Code § 54957(b)(1) is a provision of the Brown Act that grants agencies the right to hold closed session meetings to consider the appointment, employment, evaluation of performance, discipline, or dismissal of a public employee. Yet, the California Constitution and a series of case law requires that the […]

January 31, 2012
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Government agency refusal of email records

I was refused access to government emails and correspondence because the records were determined to be exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Act (recognized under the public interest balancing exemption provided by Government Code section 6255). Does this also refuse my right to access the time and date of the email correspondence?

April 12, 2016