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CPRA Police Records

How Does the Police Bill of Rights Affect Transparency and Policing Reform?

In 1976, California adopted "the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act," Govt. Code § 3300-13, which provides peace officers with certain substantive and procedural protections. Perhaps most significantly, the Act establishes limits on how officers may be questioned, investigated, and disciplined. Such laws have been criticized for making it excessively difficult to […]

April 14, 2022
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CPRA

Does the California Public Records Act Allow Agencies to Extend Deadline for Retrieving Records from 14-Days to Months?

[…] extension. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner 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. No attorney-client relationship has been formed by way of this response.

May 21, 2020
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CPRA

County Ignores My Requests For Public Records

[…] neighborhood. What CDA did was inflate the neighborhood average size, the part that is taxed, to make their project appear average. It took my California Public Records Act requests to expose some of their doing, but they are now refusing to provide any more. I have submitted requests to the County Administrator and Board […]

August 7, 2020
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First Amendment

Is It Illegal for a Congressional Candidate to Block Political Opponents from Their Twitter Feed?

[…] not been extensively litigated, so the state of the law is still in flux. Preliminarily, however, I can tell you that the First Amendment only protects against government incursions on speech. That is, for the First Amendment to be implicated, you have to show that the person curtailing speech was acting under the "color […]

May 23, 2020
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CPRA

Is It Legal To Share Public Documents Received From One School District With Another School District?

[…] here. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner 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. No attorney-client relationship has been formed by way of this response.

September 24, 2021
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Accessing A Prison Visit Audio Transcript in Maine

[…] public records laws. But I can tell you that based on my experience with other states’ open records laws, there’s a presumption that records held by the government are subject to disclosure unless some exemption applies. The first step is always to simply submit a written request to the agency that holds the records, […]

March 6, 2020
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CPRA

How do I find which grant funded school district position using CPRA

[…] your request. Find out more about the CA Public Records Act in FAC's CPRA primer. 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.

September 9, 2015
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CPRA

Request for names of Squid Vessel Permit buyers denied

I am a commercial fisherman and a journalist. Pursuant to my rights under the California Public Record Act ( Government Code Section 6250 et seq.), I am requesting a list of all Market Squid Vessel Permits bought and sold during the last five years. Included in the list, I specifically want the names of […]

June 11, 2015
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July 3, 2024
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Press Freedom Initiative

FAC provides legal support to journalists targeted with subpoenas or government searches seeking confidential news sources and other newsgathering materials.

July 2, 2024