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CPRA

County Bids and Contracts, Public Record

I bid on a copier RFP for the County Court and lost the bid. I would like to know if I can request a copy of the bid and the contract and will they have to give it to me. I thought under the public record act they would have to.

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Confidentiality of CPRA requests

Are responses to Public Records Act requests confidential? Some allegations were made about a person by an employee of a public agency. They were printed in the newspaper. This person asked for copies of the documentation that the county employee had to support their allegations. The response to that person's PRA request was mailed […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

California Driver’s License Numbers and the CPRA

Must a public agency provide driver's licenses of business owners it licenses? Can or must the public agency redact any of the information like the actual CDL number?

June 14, 2009
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Court Records CPRA First Amendment FOIA

Appellate Case Court Records

[…] to those documents unless the court has specifically ordered them to be sealed. In order to seal such documents, the party wanting the documents to be sealed must file a motion to seal under California Rules of Court Nos. 2.550 and 2.551 (conversely, if those standards and procedures are not met and/or satisfied, the […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Agenda posted online

June 14, 2009
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Court Records

Accessing Court Records and List of Cases

[…] to those documents unless the court has specifically ordered them to be sealed. In order to seal such documents, the party wanting the documents to be sealed must file a motion to seal under California Rules of Court Nos. 2.550 and 2.551 (conversely, if those standards and procedures are not met and/or satisfied, the […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Newsgathering

Accessing 911 Calls and Police Reports

[…] are relying. A sample written request can be found at the following link: https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/cpra-primer/sample-cpra-request-letter/ The PRA exemption at issue for the records you seek is found at Government Code section 6254(f), which exempts from disclosure records of law enforcement complaints and investigations. Although this section exempts the records themselves from disclosure, a police agency […]

June 14, 2009
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First Amendment

Can I be kicked off advisory committee for blogging about politics?

The First Amendment indeed forbids government officials from retaliating against individuals for speaking out. Blair v. Bethel School Dist., 608 F.3d 540, 543 (9th Cir. 2010). In order to recover for such retaliation, you would have to prove that (1) you were engaged in constitutionally protected activity; (2) as a result, you were subjected […]

March 5, 2012
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Brown Act

Closed sessions to hire and decide pay for outside counsel

Section 54956.9 of the California Government Code provides that the legislative body of a local agency, "based on advice of its legal counsel," may hold "a closed session to confer with, or receive advice from, its legal counsel regarding pending litigation when discussion in open session concerning those matters would prejudice the position of […]

June 14, 2009
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First Amendment School Records

First Amendment rights on college campuses

I have run into some First Amendment issues on my college campus. My participation in basic First Amendment activity has resulted in threats of disciplinary action and I also have been denied access to public records. Do First Amendment rights apply to college campuses?

March 21, 2016