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    CFAC joins amicus brief backing documentary journalist jailed for refusing to turn over out-takes to federal prosecutors

    […] as an investigator for the police. CFAC supports Wolf not because we agree with his politics, but because we stand beside all bona fide journalists from whom government seeks to compel disclosure of confidential sources or confidential information gathered in the course of reporting. Society is the poorer when news sources lose confidence in […]

    June 2, 2009

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    FAC, ACLU Oppose Temecula School Board’s Attempt to Throw Out Public Interest Lawsuit

    […] insisted the lawsuit should be dismissed under the state’s anti-SLAPP law. In response, FAC and ACLU’s brief argues that the anti-SLAPP statute does not apply to the governmental act of adopting an official policy, nor is the statute implicated simply because board members’ statements may be relevant to prove discriminatory intent. Even if the […]

    January 18, 2024

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    CPRA Police Records

    Obtaining names of individuals involved in an incident

    […] disciplinary measures, can only get it within the context of filing a lawsuit, and the courts have read this as exempting such files from the Public Records Act. However, at least one decision has ruled under similar circumstances that this should not prevent a newspaper from getting the names of the individuals that were […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Emails to officials

    […] that a mayor or city manager actually read an incoming email.As to the second issue, the general rules regarding the destruction of city records are contained in Government Code section 34090 et seq, the text of which can be found at the link below. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/gov/34090-34093.html There may be other local ordinances that may apply […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    CPRA and copyright

    […] asking. It states that maps are covered as public records under the CPRA. At least one court in Florida has held that when that states' public record act makes a map a public record, this means that the state is abrogating any copyright it might hold in the map. See Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner, […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Waived copy fees

    Under the PRA, agencies can waive the duplication fee for providing copies of public records.  Moreover, section 6253(b) of the California Government Code provides that "upon a request for a copy of records," agencies shall make them "promptly available to any person upon payment of fees covering direct costs of duplication" (emphasis added). If […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Traffic Accident and DMV Records

    Under Public Records Act ("PRA"), public records (which include "any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public's business prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics," Govt. Code Section 6252(e)), are open to the public unless a specific provision of the PRA […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Trade secrets in public records

    With respect to your questions below: (1) I am not aware of any provision of the Public Records Act that would cause an agency's failure to claim an exemption in an initial PRA response to waive the exemption.  Section 6253(c) of the PRA seems to provide for a single "determination" with respect to a […]

    June 14, 2009