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The California Public Records Act (Statutes of 1968, Chapter 1473; currently codified as Division 10 of Title 1 of the California Government Code) [1] was a law passed by the California State Legislature and signed by governor Ronald Reagan in 1968 requiring inspection or disclosure of governmental records to the public upon request, unless exempted by law.
You may have noticed variations of the phrase “obtained by The Sacramento Bee from a California Public Records Act request” in many of our stories. They surface in stories about police conduct ...
Proposition 42, also known as Prop 42 and Public Access to Local Government Records Amendment, was a California ballot proposition intended to make it mandatory for local governments and government agencies to follow the California Public Records Act (CPRA) and the Ralph M. Brown Act (Brown Act). These acts give the public the right to access ...
The California Public Records Act generally requires that public records in an electronic format be made available when requested by a member of the public. [ 160 ] Electronic data files containing information relating to the calculation and/or amount of a proposed assessment for each parcel within an assessment district may also be available.
The governor and the legislature ought to be beholden to the California Public Records Act, but they’re actually exempt from that, too. Changing the status quo in California can take decades. A ...
California Public Records Act California First Amendment Coalition , 170 Cal. App. 4th 1301 (2009), was a case before the California Courts of Appeal dealing with the ability of a local California agency to limit the disclosure of, or require license agreements for, public records and data requested under the California Public Records Act (CPRA).
Over two years ago, The Bee filed a request under the California Public Records Act for internal affairs documents related to the investigation of the incident in which Love was injured and any ...
The California Public Records Act (California Government Code §§6250-6276.48) covers the arrest and booking records of inmates in the State of California jails and prisons, which are not covered by First Amendment rights (freedom of speech and of the press). Public access to arrest and booking records is seen as a critical safeguard of liberty.