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A&A: Are the officer’s emails exempt from access under the CA Public Records Act?

FAC September 22, 2015

Q: I am considering filing an open records request under the California Public records act for the internal emails of a police sergeant.I suspect there is information related to misconduct on an issue not related to any open criminal case or crime investigation. Are the officer’s emails exempt under the law, or would the department simply have to black out any information related to open investigations and still give me the records? A: It is always

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A&A: Police refuse request for incident report from peaceful protest

FAC September 9, 2011

Q: In August 2010 myself and three others were passing out Christian prolife materials to clients approaching a Planned Parenthood (PP) clinic. The PP is located in a public commercial strip mall and shares a common parking lot with the other businesses. A private security official threatened us with arrest if we did not move off the parking areas. We were not blocking, or occupying any spaces. We declined and five Sheriff’s deputies eventually arrived.

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A&A:I couldn’t video tape my own arrest, but a reality show was allowed

FAC September 4, 2011

Q: Fish & Game “wardens” recently arrested me near a remote campground where I had been sitting in my car trying to sleep. My blood alcohol level was .11 and I was charged with a DUI. During the arrest, a reality TV show camera crew tagging along with the wardens filmed the whole event–including that the wardens were harassing a woman wearing only a see-through nightgown who was alone at night in a remote area.

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A&A: Police claims officer ‘use of force’ reports personnel not public issue

FAC July 8, 2011

Q: We are a police monitoring and accountability organization. For awhile we have been concerned about police use of force; where it is occurring and under what circumstances, and which officers are involved. We have twice asked for this information from the Police Department. Once, for several years worth of reports, which were denied to us on the grounds that they were ”evaluative reports of officer conduct akin to a personnel matter.” We made a

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Free speech: Police officer gets desk duty over indiscreet posting on Facebook

donal brown April 8, 2011

Free speech rights of police officers in the social media are clashing with their law enforcement responsibilities as illustrated by a recent case in Albuquerque where a police officer listed his occupation on Facebook as “human waste disposal.” A TV station discovered the gaffe after the officer was involved in a fatal off-duty shooting in February. In response to this and other instances across the country, police departments are developing social media policies. The courts have supported

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