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    CPRA

    Former State Employees and the CPRA

    […] give me in this matter is greatly appreciated. Also a second matter, a former employee of the agency submitted a request via the California freedom of information act for three separate reports done for the agency. After stalling and requesting an extension the Executive Director refused the request and said that they would supply […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Police Records

    Destruction of Memos by the Police Department

    As it sounds like you're already aware, California Government Code section 34090 requires the retention of city records less than two years old.  After that time period (and unless the records are required to be kept by statute), the head of the police department may destroy city records only with the approval of the […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Closed Sessions of City Council Meetings

    The Brown Act -- the California law that requires meetings of the legislative bodies of government agencies to hold their meetings in public -- provides that before holding a closed session, the body must identify, in an open and public meeting, the items to be discussed in closed session.  If the information required to […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Accessing Records of Parolees’ Addresses

    […] concerned that a disproportionate number of parolees are being released to live there by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. I requested through the Public Records Act information on all parolees the department has listed as living in the nine cities, the offense for which they went to prison, name, address, etc. CDCR […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    University fails to make good faith effort to respond to records request

    […] However, it has been three to four months with no result. I caught the office lying to me last month. It promised production of documents but then I checked with the actual office producing the documents and no one there heard of my requests. What are my rights to compel a response on from UC?

    February 3, 2011

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    CPRA

    Strategic question regarding a large PRA request

    […] from the California Department of Health Care Services. At this point, our questions are strategic. For example: are we likely to make more progress with a reluctant government agency by a series of requests, none of which is, in itself, unduly burdensome? Or are we likely to make faster progress by asking for everything […]

    September 6, 2016

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    CPRA

    Legal Action Against a Board Member in Closed Session

    Is it legal for the superintendent and board president to put under closed session anticipating legal action regarding a board member without notifying that board member of the reasons, etc.?

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Individual Meetings for Review

    Does the following constitute a violation of the Brown Act's prohibition on serial informal meetings? An architect of a controversial project in Palo Alto met individually with 4 of 5 members of the Architectural Review Board following a particularly negative public review. It seems his purpose was to get feedback on his designs and […]

    June 14, 2009