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Report Request Denied Citing ‘Attorney Work Product, Official Info and Deliberative Process Privilege’

[…] disclosure to the public by the attorney work-product privilege (Code of Civil Procedure §2018.030), the official information privilege (Evidence Code §1040), and the deliberative process privilege ( Government Code §6255; Times Mirror Co. v. Superior Court (1991) 53 Cal.3d 1325)." I'd like to get some guidance on this. Would such a report actually fall […]

November 27, 2018
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June 11, 2024
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Behind the Headlines: How EdSource Put Sunshine on Policing in California Schools

[…] faced nearly a triple level of blockage on this. With limited exceptions, police in California have very wide discretion to provide nothing under the California Public Records Act, largely because of the investigatory records exemption,* which is very broad and almost never expires. Additionally, schools are subject to educational privacy rules, so what happens […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
October 14, 2024
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FAC, ACLU Urge Temecula School Board and Its President to Halt Free Speech Violations at Meetings

Last week, FAC joined the ACLU of Southern California in demanding that the Temecula Valley Unified School District ("TVUSD") School Board stop trampling on the Brown Act and First Amendment. Since a new majority was elected in late 2022, the board has made a series of controversial decisions including firing the superintendent, banning "critical […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Meetings
August 22, 2023
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California Assembly Bill 1479 Would Add Much-Needed Teeth to Disclosure Requirements Under the California Public Records Act

One of the most frequent complaints FAC hears from people seeking records under the California Public Records Act (CPRA) is that government agencies simply ignore the law's requirement that the government respond to a request within a certain time frame. One reason government agencies do this is that there is very little cost to […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
April 20, 2017
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Brown signs SB 1300, but calls on Legislature to fix public access issues

Governor Brown has signed SB 1300, the refinery regulation bill that FAC and others opposed because of last-minute amendments that would weaken rights of access under the Public Records Act. However, the Governor, in a signing message, made clear he wants the Legislature to pass a new bill to fix those amendments. The Governor […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
October 17, 2014
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Update on open-government legislative proposals in Sacramento

[…] "basemap" data is used to create the base layer for all local computer mapping. The bill sought to exempt from the Public Records Act, which requires all government data to be available to the public, "metadata, listings of metadata and assembled model data". CFAC has filed suit to force Santa Clara County to make […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
June 6, 2009
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Transcript: Protest & Pushback

[…] conversation about racial justice, and possibly the country, forever. A new generation of activists exercised their right to peaceably assemble, to speak out and to petition the government. The right to record police gained new importance. Videos of troubling — and sometimes fatal — encounters with Black people fueled demands to end systemic racism […]
- Free Expression
December 6, 2021
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The First Amendment protects journalists using Snowden’s documents. But what about Snowden?

[…] information, not a journalist who receives leaks. The difference is crucial: in the transaction between source and journalist, constitutional protections extend only to the latter. Specifically, the government is legally powerless to get a court injunction barring a journalist from publishing a story based on leaked information. And post-publication, too, journalists have special protections: […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 22, 2013
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Sunshine Week Event: Inside the Fight for Public Information

Sunshine Week 2021: Join us for a discussion on navigating barriers to public records and fighting for open government Update: Check out the event recap. The coronavirus pandemic has made accessing public information more challenging than ever, with some governments refusing to even respond to requests for public records. Yet news organizations across the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
March 2, 2021