By Mani Dabiri | Published July 13, 2016 | Posted in Civil Business Litigation and Investigations, Federal and State Criminal Defense, Government Subpoenas and Investigations, Post-Conviction Defense and Appeals, White-Collar and Regulatory Defense | Tagged Tags: CPRA, dueprocess, FOIA |
The California Public Records Act
California and every other state in the Union has an open-records or public-records law like the federal Freedom of Information Act, which we wrote about last week. You can read more about your state’s law here, here, or here. You’ll find the California Public Records Act (or CPRA) in sections 6250–6276.48 of the Government Code. The law was first passed in 1968, and in 2004, the Read More
Read MoreThe Future of FOIA and Open Government
Speaking of anniversaries, this July 4, we didn’t just celebrate the 240th birthday of the Declaration of Independence; we also celebrated the 50th birthday of the Freedom of Information Act, which President Lyndon Johnson signed into law on July 4, 1966. To honor the occasion, the Washington Post penned a pithy homage to this engine of open government that helps Read More
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