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    Brown Act CPRA

    County Bar Association and the CPRA and Brown Act

    […] that governing body as a full voting member by the legislative body of the local agency. Cal. Govt. Code Section 54952(c)(1).  The PRA explicitly provides that "nonprofit entities that are legislative bodies of a local agency" pursuant to Section 54952(c) are "local agencies" subject to the PRA. Accordingly, a local county bar association may […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    List of applicants for a public entity’s general manager

    No court has yet addressed the issue of what kind of information about government job applicants is public. You could make a request for the information you seek pursuant to the California Public Records Act, with the caveat that you may face objections such as the ones outlined below. The government agency might raise […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Charter Cities and the CPRA

    The California Public Records Act (California Government Code Section 6250 et seq.) governs access to public information and records from local government, including information and records from cities.  On the local level, all government agencies except the court system are governed by the Public Records Act.  California Government Code Section 6252 defines local agencies […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Administrative hearing transcripts

    The California Public Records Act ("PRA") (California Government Code Section 6250 et seq.) governs access to public information and records from local government, including information and records from cities.  On the local level, all government agencies except the court system are governed by the Public Records Act.  California Government Code Section 6252 defines local […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Access to rezoning information

    You first asked what the public's rights are with respect to information, such as how the committee was formed.  There is no law that requires government agencies to respond to questions made of them by members of the public.  Therefore, an agency such as the school district does not necessarily need to respond to […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    State appointed School District Trustee violating Brown Act, CPRA

    […] technically applications, not correspondence. "In our view, the correspondence exemption was intended to protect communications to the Governor and members of the Governor’s staff from correspondents outside of government. … The applications herein from private citizens, like formal letters and other mail from citizens, did not become public records until received by the Governor’s office.  Section […]

    May 18, 2015

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    CPRA

    Help Needed In Requesting Documents from California Coastal Commission

    […] in California First Amendment Coalition v. Superior Court, 67 Cal. App. 4th 159, 169-70 (1998), is a court-created exemption derived from the same section mentioned above ( Government Code § 6254(a)) and Government Code § 6255 (the so-called "catch-all exemption"). The deliberative process privilege is intended to protect the government’s decision making process. "The […]

    March 16, 2020

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    Public Records

    FAC Opposes AB 1821

    FAC opposes AB 1821, a bill that would frustrate public access to information by giving government agencies more time to provide initial responses to anyone seeking information under the California Public Records Act. That initial response does not require agencies to produce records. It simply requires them to say whether they have responsive records […]

    April 9, 2026

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    Court Finds Former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and City Violated Public Records Act

    […] of our dogged efforts to hold the city of San Jose and former Mayor Liccardo accountable," said Ramona Giwargis, co-founder and CEO of San José Spotlight. " Government cannot operate in the shadows, and public officials should not and cannot conduct stealth government through texts on their private phones, as Mayor Liccardo tried to […]

    August 30, 2023