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    CPRA

    Coastal Permit access under PRA

    […] Act, including a sample request letter, at the First Amendment Coalition website: Public Records Act Bryan Cave 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.

    April 29, 2016

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    CPRA

    CPRA request for animal shelter euthanasia log redact staff members names

    […] to accept stray dogs, and the shelter has chosen euthanasia as a means to meet that mandate, I would think that the performance of euthanasia is clearly the conduct of the people’s business and not in any way a personal or private activity. Is there any case law that would directly apply to this situation?

    December 12, 2015

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    CPRA Police Records

    City Surveillance Cameras and Public Records Law

    […] retained by any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics," Gov't Code Section 6252(e) -- are presumed to be open to the public and must be disclosed unless a specific provision of the Act or other law exempts them from disclosure.  "Writing" includes not only writings in the traditional sense,but "every […]

    November 20, 2009

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    FOIA

    Can TSA deny company public information under FOIA?

    The Freedom of Information Act requires that a government agency produce existing records that are not otherwise exempt.  5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(2).  The FOIA applies to existing documents, but nothing in the act requires that an agency produce or compile new records for the benefit of the requesting party.  If an agency denies an individual’s […]

    August 11, 2014

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    CPRA Police Records

    Public Record, and 911 Call Logs

    […] California Supreme Court said that, in enacting the California Public Records Act (CPRA), "the state Legislature ... limited the CPRA's exemption for law enforcement investigatory files," in Government Code §  6254(f), "by requiring agencies to disclose specific information derived from the materials in investigatory files rather than the materials, themselves."  Thus, the Court said, […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Police Records

    Police Call and Arrest Logs

    […] City website keeps the call logs on the City website for 7 days, and they fall off, does that mean they are no longer accessible? How long must these records be provided for? One of the contentions was that if it fell off the website after the week that it appears there by convention, […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Giving conditions to public records requests

    […] the minutes requested. 3.         If copies are requested, there will be a charge per page for copies. After reviewing the Pocket Guide to the California Public Records Act, I believe items 1 and 2 above are a clear violation of the Public Records Act.  Is this correct? The department has 2 paid firefighter on […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Police Records

    Criminal Records and the CPRA

    […] California Public Records Act ("PRA"), 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 police agencies to withhold investigatory records, even if the investigation has been concluded.  Notwithstanding […]

    June 14, 2009