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  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA Police Records

    Police deny journalist’s request for suicide report

    […] to another, to sell a product or service to any individual or group of individuals, and the requester shall execute a declaration to that effect under penalty of perjury. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prohibit or limit a scholarly, journalistic, political, or government use of address information obtained pursuant to this paragraph.

    April 2, 2010

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Public comment limited to three items on Water Quality Board agenda

    […] not already been considered at a meeting where members of the public had been allowed to comment. While the spirit of open meetings and public access to government deliberation may have been better served by allowing the public to comment on the permit as a whole, if the criteria set forth in § 54954.3 […]

    April 14, 2010

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA FOIA

    FOIA precedents and the CPRA #2

    […] or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.(b)(6) EXEMPTION 6 Personal Information Affecting an Individual's Privacy. This exemption permits the government to withhold all information about individuals in "personnel and medical files and similar files" when the disclosure of such information would "constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Emails to officials

    […] that a mayor or city manager actually read an incoming email.As to the second issue, the general rules regarding the destruction of city records are contained in Government Code section 34090 et seq, the text of which can be found at the link below. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cacodes/gov/34090-34093.html There may be other local ordinances that may apply […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    CPS (Child Protection Services) records

    The California Public Records Act contains an exemption, in Government Code section 6254(k), for records that are made confidential under other provisions of the law.Welfare and Institutions Code section 827 (among other sections) make most CPS' records confidential except for those to whom a court orders they may be released, which is why CPS […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    CPRA fees and information in electronic form

    […] laptops to each other, especially during the periods of council meetings for the last two months, the city has responded thusly:Pursuant to the California Public Records Act Government Code 6253.9 b. 2 the following fees are associated with fulfilling your request: Contract Staff time to extract stored email ($45/hr x35 hrs) = $1,575.00 Recall […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Court response time to CPRA

    The California Public Records Act (CPRA) does not apply to the courts (see Government Code § 6252(a)). Therefore, when a court responds to your request for a copy of a criminal complaint, it is not required to comply with the deadlines imposed by the CPRA. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution and […]

    June 14, 2009