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    CPRA

    Local School District Records

    Can you please direct me to the correct California Public Records Act form I need to use to obtain records from a School District? Do I also need to submit a US FOIA request as well or is a CPRA request sufficient? Are there applicable administrative remedies that need to be exhausted, ie, the […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Minutes to be Approved Made Public

    If minutes are to be approved at a Committee meeting that is a Brown Act Committee, do the minutes need to be available to the public 72 hrs prior to the vote- or at the very least, the same time they are given to the committee members?

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Information on Running for City Clerk

    […] Clerk elected position and all city laws that apply to run for City Clerk elected position." The city attorney responded back saying: The City will not be complying with your records request of the above date. The California Public Records Act requires that the City provide the public with properly requested "records". The issues […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    DA Office Complaint Records

    […] those records. Under the CPRA, records in the possession of public entities are presumed to be public unless one of the Act's enumerated exceptions to disclosure applies.  Government Code section 6254(f) sets forth the so-called "law enforcement" exemption, which allows law enforcement agencies to withhold, among other things, records of complaints and investigatory records.  […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Can we compel our non-profit hospital to share financial information with the community?

    […] is up to the directors to insist that staff provide this information. Bryan Cave LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to First Amendment Coalition 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.

    October 21, 2013

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    CPRA

    Can Employment Records & Dismissal Be Presented in City Council Open Session?

    […] full name and that at this open session there would not be any public comment allowed regarding what was being heard. Is this a violation of the Brown Act? Secondly, along with the agenda that was posted they also posted to the public, online an additional 816 pages of documents that included transcripts from […]

    November 16, 2018

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    CPRA

    Help Needed In Requesting Documents from California Coastal Commission

    […] in California First Amendment Coalition v. Superior Court, 67 Cal. App. 4th 159, 169-70 (1998), is a court-created exemption derived from the same section mentioned above ( Government Code § 6254(a)) and Government Code § 6255 (the so-called "catch-all exemption"). The deliberative process privilege is intended to protect the government’s decision making process. "The […]

    March 16, 2020

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    Government Transparency & Accountability

    Ensuring public access to information is essential for the people to know what the government is doing in their name. We advance and defend freedom of information — access to public records and public meetings — through education, policy advocacy and litigation.

    July 3, 2024