Q: Thank you for your helpful website. I used your Cure & Correct demand template to submit a Cure & Correct letter to the Board of Trustees and the attorney representing our school district. My letter was sent on April 10, 2013, and it referenced several Brown Act violations related to a School Board meeting [...]
A&A: Does Brown Act allow City secrecy about power plant plans?
Q: Our city has been trying to build a power plant. The 5-year CEC permit is about to expire. Can the City keep secret the development map and property owners names on the building extension petition? The petition for another 5-year extension was filed with the CEC before the Council ”formally” voted its support. Isn’t [...]
A&A: CPRA Request being stonewalled by their attorney
Q: Our local fire district is a special independent district with the governing board elected by the populace. It is a 5 member board. There are no term limits and several board members have run unopposed for many years. This Board is supposed to provide oversight over the actions of the Fire Chief. Recently members [...]
A&A: Accessing public records on mental health workers
Q: In many California Counties’ Mental/Behavioral Health Departments brag they employ individuals with ”lived experience” of mental illness. The claim is that these individuals bring an important perspective and enrich the workplace. Further, MH Departments claim this ”lived experience” is an added qualification to work in the mental health field. Some Counties, state ”we have [...]
A&A: City Attorney says legal analysis is a CPRA exemption
Q: A group of citizens is opposing the City Council’s 3/2 vote to allow two digital billboards on city property. Citizens submitted a PRA request for any legal analysis of the proposal. The City Attorney replied the legal analysis is attorney client privileged communication and is therefore a CPRA exemption. However, City Attorney also stated [...]
A&A: 1st amendment right to porn denied by senior center
Q: My local city-run senior center censors books, magazines, films, internet and bulletin-board postings. Though it is a senior center, they pretend to have the right to ban pornography or whatever they deem ”inappropriate.” As a senior citizen, I say I have the right to full internet access, to put off-color books, magazines and films [...]
A&A: CPRA request denied for city employee’s college grades
Q: The City has an employee reimbursement education program for college credits. Part of the city’s requirement for reimbursement is a minimum C grade. I made a public records request for the elected City Clerk and I’m told her grades are confidential by some Federal Statute. She has objected to my obtaining this information. Is [...]
A&A: Publishing a photo showing license plate numbers
Q: While walking across a parking lot at an elementary school site, I noticed a car that had been parked in the same place for several minutes. There were two 8 x 11 inched sized ”political messages” affixed to the back bumper of the car: 1 on each side of, and close to, the license [...]
A&A: Records request denied due to “deliberative process privilege”
Q: My city is claiming “deliberative process privilege” in redacting the planning director appointment calendar. I’m wondering if there have been any successful challenges to the deliberative process privilege since Schwartznegger’s refusal to turn over appt calendars for two aides citing this privilege? A: It has been argued, and a state appellate court has rejected, [...]
A&A: Does the Brown Act require minutes from city council meetings?
Q: Are city councils required to have minutes? A: The Brown Act, the law that governs the extent to which local agencies such as city councils must conduct their meetings in a manner open to the public, does not require that a city council take minutes. The Brown Act only acknowledges that a minute book [...]
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