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California AG Xavier Becerra and the Thick Blue Wall of Police Secrecy

By DAVID SNYDER—California Attorney General Xavier Becerra appears to believe there are two sets of rules about government transparency—one for his office, and another for everyone else. Back in 2017, when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refused to disclose public records about EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s potential ethical conflicts, Becerra promptly sued under the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
March 6, 2019
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Big victory in CA Supreme Court case on public access to government data

In a major victory for open government and data access, the California Supreme Court yesterday ruled that Orange County cannot restrict access to its electronic mapping data--a so-called "basemap." The Court decided unanimously that the county basemap is a public record under the Public Records Act, which means that it must be made available […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
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July 10, 2013
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Amici Briefs Digest – March 2018

[…] the issue of whether the mere existence of probable cause to arrest an individual defeats that individual’s ability to bring a First Amendment retaliation lawsuit against the government--i.e., a lawsuit alleging that the government retaliated against the individual for exercising free-expression rights protected under the First Amendment. FAC joined an amicus by the National […]
March 7, 2018
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AG Jerry Brown’s decision to oppose Prop 8 in the Supreme Court will, ironically, only help the pro-Prop 8 forces

[…] case poses a test of the Court's legitimacy, its most valuable asset, at a crucial moment in its history. The Court is the only institution of California government that is seen as able to take on hard issues, to decide them in the public interest, and to act decisively. Although its authority has never […]

June 3, 2009
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A stunning end to the media’s 20-year losing streak in high court access cases.

Watershed CA Supreme Court decision is major win for government transparency By Peter Scheer America's highest courts are justly criticized for avoiding hard issues. The judicial fetish for deciding cases on the narrowest possible grounds yields opinions so limited and unambitious in scope that they often raise more questions, and generate more legal disputes, […]
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June 3, 2009
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2007 Open Government Legislative Roundup: Some successes and some failures

2007 Open Government Legislative Roundup: Some successes and some failures By Nick Rahaim The 2007 legislative session started with a host of promising bills that would have created more transparency and would have reversed recent judicial and Attorney General opinions permitting excessive secrecy. There were some successes and some disappointments. The major disappointment was […]
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June 3, 2009
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Behind the Headlines: How CBS Reporter Julie Watts Is Pushing for Police Transparency

[…] officers were not wearing body cameras, but Roseville PD officers were. And that agency refused to release more than four 39-second clips from their officers’ cameras. Open- government lawyers, like FAC’s David Loy, and lawmakers raised concerns that the decisions to withhold public records could have a ripple effect across the state and impact […]
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June 27, 2024
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Brown Act

Budget committee meets behind closed doors

Government Code section 54952(b) contains the definition of agencies that are covered by the Brown Act: "A commission, committee, board or other body of a local agency, whether permanent or temporary, decision-making or advisory, created by charter, ordinance , resolution or formal action of a legislative body. However, advisory committees, composed solely of […]

September 13, 2011
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CPRA Police Records

Investigative and disciplinary records pertaining to police officers

[…] elder abuse investigation in the community. Through my open records request I was hoping to determine why the detective assigned to investigate, arbitrarily dismissed the case. The department gave no reason. I also asked whether there was any disciplinary action ever taken against the detective. But the department has declined to respond to my request.

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act CPRA School Records

School District agenda packets

[…] the Public Records Act. The Brown Act expressly provides that citizens may request that a copy of the agenda packet be mailed to him or her. ( Government Code section 54954.1, reproduced below.) In addition, the Brown Act provides that any documents distributed to all or a majority of the members of a public […]

June 14, 2009