Mr. FELCH: In California, under the Public Records Act, we were able to obtain this information from the school district itself, so the district's attorneys decided that this was actually public record information.

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Using personal email for public business violates the Federal Records Act, and evidence later turned up that Mr. Perez had used his personal email concerning the St.

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In fact, just last month, University of Kentucky attorneys filed a lawsuit against a public radio reporter simply because she made an Open Records Act request for documents about surgeries at Kentucky Children's Hospital.

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Robinson is among 157 death row inmates -- 83 blacks, 63 whites and 12 other ethnicities -- who filed appeals under the Racial Justice Act, according to records from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.

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