A California Bill Would Speed Access to Court Records
Passing along from the First Amendment Law Prof Blog: State Senator Leland Yee has recently filed the Court Transparency Bill, SB 326, which would require state courts to make newly filed court...
View ArticleSacramento pension data public, court says
The pensions of retirees from Sacramento County government are a matter of public record and cannot be kept secret, the California Third District Court of Appeal says. The Sacramento Bee newspaper had...
View ArticleCalifornia Constitutional Provision Awaits Vote…
The California Senate has unanimously approved a constitutional amendment authored by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, to ensure public bodies follow requirements to post agendas and to disclose any...
View ArticleNo Access to Who California Lawmakers Are Meeting With…
An interesting story on access to calendar items… Officials from San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have thrown open their daily calendars, allowing insight into whom...
View ArticleLegislative Calendars: Why A State Secret?
Nice piece on access to legislative calendars. Why the secrecy? Filed under: 1. Records that matter, 3. Access law, 8. Officials' perspectives Tagged: calendars, California, Davis
View ArticleA Nice Look at the Secrecy Epidemic In California…
A former student, Brian Joseph, with a nice look at secrecy in California: Critics of California’s in-home supportive services program believe there may be scores of people like Joowan Kim. In...
View ArticleDemi Moore’s Contribution to 911 Secrecy
See how bad FOI ideas get started? Just mix one opportunistic politician, one troubled celebrity…and voila! Image via Wikipedia Related articles Assemblywoman wants 911 recordings protected...
View ArticleFAC Sues City Over Emails…
A new suit filed by the First Amendment Coalition claims that city officials’ emails about government business are public records even though they were sent or received on the officials’ personal email...
View ArticleOn the sunshine soap opera playing out in California…
NFOIC chief Ken Bunting puts the dispute into perspective: City councils, public commissions, county and school boards and special district governing bodies in California may continue to hold their...
View ArticleCalifornia bill would require searchable format for public records…now that’s...
Great news from the good folks at CaliforniaWatch: California could become the first state in the nation to require that public agencies provide their records in searchable formats, such as Excel or...
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