For more than six decades, Kronick has partnered with public agencies to provide them with accurate, clear, and efficient legal guidance. We are pleased to announce that Kronick now offers a comprehensive service assisting public agencies with all aspects of handling requests made under the California Public Records Act (“CPRA”). Our service helps public agencies simplify the records request process, more efficiently use staff time on other agency business, and prevent costly duplicative efforts and mistakes.
The CPRA was enacted to promote transparency and provide open access to government data and records. We understand CPRA requests require timely and accurate responses, and work with public agency clients of all sizes to assist them with CPRA compliance, including meeting deadlines, interpreting exemptions, and analyzing privacy considerations.
CPRA requests often set costly, time-consuming searches in motion, processes that public agencies may be underequipped or under-resourced to handle. We work with our clients to ensure they comprehensively identify and sort through relevant data sources, gather potentially responsive records, protect all relevant privacy interests, and expeditiously deliver requested records. Our goal is to enable our clients to ensure comprehensive and accurate access to public records while minimizing costs and avoiding undue liability.
The Kronick Difference
Kronick understands each organization is unique and will require different and varied assistance in responding to record requests. By drawing on the collective knowledge, experience, and resources of our CPRA response team, we are able to offer clients timely assistance and pragmatic solutions, no matter how unique the client’s setup and needs. Our practiced CPRA response team can assist clients with assessing the scope of records requests, adopting the best methods and workflows for collection, identifying effective search terms, managing reviews, and formulating compliant responses.
A key benefit of our CPRA response service is access to our team’s e-discovery expertise and the firm’s affordable and customizable e-discovery platform. Our CPRA response team skillfully employs our e-discovery platform’s robust search capabilities, advanced AI technology, and customizable workflows to ensure document reviews are tailored, targeted, and more expeditiously completed.
We recognize that our public agency clients have many duties to attend to during their regular course of business and CPRA responses do not need to add to that. We welcome the opportunity to discuss with your organization how we can best assist your team at the level and capacity you require, whether that assistance is in-house training or full-level review and response to record requests as needed. Please contact the attorney with whom you typically consult or our CPRA Team.