By JW August, journalist and Past President of Californians Aware Firefights have broken out across California. The weapons used are not guns but words as police unions across the state are digging in over a recently enacted...
Read MoreCalifornians Aware has announced its opposition to Assembly Bill 1455 by Assemblymember Raul Bocanegra (D-San Fernando), which would exempt from public disclosure under the California Public Records Act all records of what a...
Read More[alert type=”e.g. general, error, success, notice”] New Year’s Eve Reminder: Please make your contribution—as generous as you believe CalAware to be as a public service—by midnight Sunday in order to claim a...
Read MoreA bill by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) aims to reduce the practice of sending detainees under age 18 to solitary confinement, in part by making reports about such placements public records. SB 124, now facing its final...
Read MoreUnless the legislation now brewing in Sacramento to regulate police use of body cameras expressly provides otherwise, the public will seldom see and hear the documentation they gather. The reason: Under California case law...
Read MorePUBLIC INFORMATION Harmful, sometimes fatal hospital errors and infections in California now disclosed by NBC Bay Area investigative report online Real owners of California’s nursing homes and how the big chains perform revealed...
Read MoreFREE SPEECH: L.A. Supervisors’ Names Can’t Stop Bill Protecting Speech at Public Meetings Despite a last minute Chicken Little chorus signed personally by all Los Angeles County Supervisors, a bill backed by Californians Aware...
Read MoreFREE SPEECH Court: California privacy law gives Internet opinions on public issues not just the right to be wrong, but also to stay anonymous Study: Surprise! Supreme Court justices’ support for free speech depends on the...
Read MoreNonprofit uses public data to show likelihood cities will become unable to pay bondholders A public interest group has applied sophisticated analysis to public records information for each of 260 California cities of more than...
Read MoreA veteran but financially struggling small-town newspaper publisher facing a trial court order to pay a school district more than $56,000 in attorney fees was spared that fate today by a three-judge panel of the Third District,...
Read MoreAs reported by the Sacramento Bee’s Jon Ortiz, CalPERS has put a hold on plans to launch an Internet database showing the names, pension amounts and other related information of its 1.6 million members, after a group...
Read MoreBarely two weeks after the Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown abandoned a budgeting proposal to suspend a law requiring local government agencies to provide the public with access to their data in any computer format they keep...
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