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    Local School District Records

    Can you please direct me to the correct California Public Records Act form I need to use to obtain records from a School District? Do I also need to submit a US FOIA request as well or is a CPRA request sufficient? Are there applicable administrative remedies that need to be exhausted, ie, the […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Information on Running for City Clerk

    […] Clerk elected position and all city laws that apply to run for City Clerk elected position." The city attorney responded back saying: The City will not be complying with your records request of the above date. The California Public Records Act requires that the City provide the public with properly requested "records". The issues […]

    June 14, 2009

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    DA Office Complaint Records

    […] those records. Under the CPRA, records in the possession of public entities are presumed to be public unless one of the Act's enumerated exceptions to disclosure applies.  Government Code section 6254(f) sets forth the so-called "law enforcement" exemption, which allows law enforcement agencies to withhold, among other things, records of complaints and investigatory records.  […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Can Employment Records & Dismissal Be Presented in City Council Open Session?

    […] full name and that at this open session there would not be any public comment allowed regarding what was being heard. Is this a violation of the Brown Act? Secondly, along with the agenda that was posted they also posted to the public, online an additional 816 pages of documents that included transcripts from […]

    November 16, 2018

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    Holding governments accountable at the local, state, and federal levels; supporting journalists and citizens in how to enforce their First Amendment rights.

    June 12, 2024

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    Help Needed In Requesting Documents from California Coastal Commission

    […] in California First Amendment Coalition v. Superior Court, 67 Cal. App. 4th 159, 169-70 (1998), is a court-created exemption derived from the same section mentioned above ( Government Code § 6254(a)) and Government Code § 6255 (the so-called "catch-all exemption"). The deliberative process privilege is intended to protect the government’s decision making process. "The […]

    March 16, 2020

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    Court Finds Former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and City Violated Public Records Act

    […] of our dogged efforts to hold the city of San Jose and former Mayor Liccardo accountable," said Ramona Giwargis, co-founder and CEO of San José Spotlight. " Government cannot operate in the shadows, and public officials should not and cannot conduct stealth government through texts on their private phones, as Mayor Liccardo tried to […]

    August 30, 2023

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    More than 100 Organizations and Media Companies Call on Congress to Pass the PRESS Act

    […] identifying confidential sources as well as records, communications content, documents, or information that the journalist obtained or created as part of their journalism. The bill also bars government demands for that data to third parties like phone or email providers unless a court finds a reasonable threat of imminent violence absent disclosure. And it […]

    October 10, 2024

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    FAC To LAPD: Police Bodycam Footage is a Public Record and Must Be Released

    […] controversies about the police use of force have heightened tensions between the police and the communities they serve. Transparency—the ability of the people to see and know what their  government is up to—is essential to the proper functioning of our democracy, including the role police play in it. Bodycam footage is essential to the fundamental right […]

    June 8, 2017