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    CPRA Police Records

    Accessing Police Evidence

    […] or documentary evidence concerning the arrest incident, unfortunately, there is only limited information that can be accessed through the California Public Records Act (PRA).  Under the PRA, Government Code section 6250 et seq., records maintained by public agencies are presumptively available for public inspection and copying unless one of the Act's exemptions applies.  In […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Accessing City Annuities and Investments

    […] City's investments that are in the possession of the City are public records unless one the PRA's exemptions applies. The exemptions to the Act are found at Government Code sections 6254 and 6255.   The following link is an article explaining a settlement that CFAC reached with in 2004 with the California Public Employees' Retirement […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA School Records

    Accessing a public employee’s resume

    Under the PRA, government agencies need not disclose "[p]ersonnel, medical, or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."  Govt. Code Section 6254(c).  With respect to government employee's resumes, in 1982 the Court of Appeal upheld an order that an agency disclose "such portions of [a particular employee's] […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Police Records

    Access to Police Officer personnel files

    […] access to a police officers personnel file. However, as to at least two of the three categories of records you want, you have an alternative argument.  In Government Code section 6254.8, the California Public Records Act provides an absolute right of access to every employment contract between a government agency and a public official, […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Access to names of applicants to official positions

    […] are only asking for the names.  Disclosure of the names alone will not have any deterrent effect.  If it does, these people have no place applying for government positions.  Second, Proposition 59, passed last November, was designed to reverse those two cases I just mentioned.  You can download the language of the proposition and […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Access to coroner’s report

    I am unaware of any provision of the Government Code relating to coroners and coroners’ records that makes a coroner’s report confidential or precludes public disclosure of the coroner’s records, with the exception of limitations imposed on the disclosure of privileged communications of a decedent obtained by subpoena.  Cal. Gov’t Code § 27491.8. Because […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Private attorney costs to public agencies and attorney-client privilege

    […] information in the retainer, it appears to have been a violation of the Public Record Act to not disclose the amount of the retainer agreement.  See Cal. Government Code section 54957.5(a) (records provided to a Board of Supervisors or other legislative body in preparation for a public meeting are public records that must be […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Does the Brown Act require meeting minutes?

    […] ordinances).  You might want to review the school board’s bylaws for guidance on this issue. Bryan Cave LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation.

    April 13, 2015

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    CPRA First Amendment Police Records

    CPRA has time limits on public document’s is availability?

    […] criminal cases from the 1970s and '80s. This information pertains to the who, what, when, where, etc. of the cases I'm researching. Based on my reading of Government Code Section 6254(f), the information I'm requesting is not investigatory in nature and is fair game under the California Public Records Act. Moreover, all of the […]

    March 30, 2015