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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Fights Unprecedented Effort by School District to Recover Nearly $500K From Records Requester

    […] requested public records under the California Public Records Act is legally meritless, unprecedented, and would cast an intolerable chill over the public’s ability to learn about their government. Newark Unified has asked the Alameda County Superior Court in California to order Elizabeth Brazil to pay the school district $449, 317.60 for time the district’s […]

    February 6, 2018

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    Extracting information from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) takes persistence and understanding one’s rights under FOIA

    […] that works closely with the city’s immigrant community, told CFAC, "We often act as a clearing house of information, by making alliances with the community, lawyers, local government and the press." ICE rarely volunteers specific numbers or names of persons detained in raids. In March , following several high-profile raids in San Rafael’s canal […]

    June 2, 2009

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    Blog

    Digital strip-search: Case of lost iPhone prototype shows the danger of using search warrant to seize journalists’ information

    […] most professionals, a loss of this magnitude would be crippling, essentially bringing one's work to a complete halt for the duration of a police examination in which government agents have access, not only to business records, but also to one's most private files (medical and financial records, communications with family members, etc.). But for […]

    April 30, 2010

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    Brown Act

    Special Districts: County Water District

    […] of the board of supervisors shall be as follows: 'The Board of Supervisors of the County of _____ ordains as follows.'" Special districts are subject to the Brown Act's requirements for noticing and hearing.  See Govt. Code Sections 54950-54963; see also CFAC web site. In particular, the Brown Act provides that "t least 72 […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Selling property and public input

    Government Code section 54956.8 permits a legislative body to meet in closed session to advise its negotiator concerning the "price" and "terms of payment" in connection with the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property by or for the agency. A California appellate court stated that the purpose for the exception arises out […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA FOIA

    Record of state and federal spending

    […] legislature and judiciary to make public all records pertaining to how state and federal tax monies are spent? Would not the California Public Records Act have to comply with Federal Law (i.e. Freedom of Information Act)? If not, could not a suit be brought in federal court seeking an injunction to force the state […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Can I go to small claims to appeal a denial of my CPRA request?

    I understand from your website that there is no administrative appeal process for someone whose request for records was denied under CPRA, and that litigation is the only recourse. Given that, could I feasibly go to small claims for relief in equity to appeal the denial and get my records? Just to clarify, does that also […]

    August 13, 2013

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    Brown Act

    Public comment vs. speaking on agenda item

    […] to speak under Public Comment instead as he was going to be speaking on an item not on the agenda. Come to find out he wanted to actually give his own report on behalf of his group. He later stated that he had the right to speak on the agenda item but my contention […]

    September 27, 2011

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    First Amendment

    How do we respond to government harassment of our protest?

    We had some 15 protesters on a public passage that is a footpath over a major frwy. A   government entity kept harassing us during our protest. We hung large signs over the frwy as these overpasses have metal grids fencing. This in turn slowed but did not impede or block or obstruct moving […]

    September 18, 2013