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    CPRA

    Title IX Compliance Report

    […] In your case, it looks as though the district has ignored both of your requests for records.  Sometimes it can be useful to try to identify the government legal counsel for the particular agency (often the city attorney or county counsel) and let that office know that your requests have been ignored. If you […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA School Records

    Suspension and Expulsion Records

    […] records are presumptively open to the public, absent an express provision to the contrary.  Two provisions of the PRA that might apply to student disciplinary records are Government Code Section 6254(c), which exempts from disclosure "[p]ersonnel, medical, or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy," and Section […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Special Meetings and Means of Notice

    […] notification via email appears to be an acceptable form of written notification.  (See 43 Ops. Cal.Atty.Gen. 79 (1964) and Legislative History to Senate Bill 138 (1997)). However, Government Code section 54956 also requires that the notice be "received" at least 24 hours before the time of the meeting.  We have been unable to locate […]

    June 14, 2009

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    FOIA

    SEC Records

    […] try making a records request to the SEC under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), which applies to all departments of the executive branch of the federal government.  Before making your request, you should review the SEC's operating procedures relating to FOIA, which can be found at the following link: http://www.sec.gov/foia.shtml The FOIA requires […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA School Records

    School employee discipline and hiring records

    […] possible that the school district may cite privacy as a reason to turn down your request, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are correct to do so. Government Code section 6254 provides that " Except as provided in Section 6254.7, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require disclosure of records that are […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    School documents and lost records

    […] documents, that are "prepared, owned, used or retained" by the district are accessible to the public unless they come under one of the exemptions set forth in Government Code sec. 6254 or the "catchall" exemption in sec. 6255. With regard to salary compensation information, there has been a fair amount of controversy and litigation […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Rights of Public Comment

    […] developer and staff.  The ability of the public to present their opinions at a microphone is not allowed. There is no way the City Council will ever know what the public has said.  The right of the public to petition their government is being suppressed. Only pro-developer, high density hype is allowed past the censorship.

    June 14, 2009