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October 2010

A&A: How to I get city to admit to under-reporting employee compensation?

FAC October 22, 2010

Q: The City withheld pay and benefit information that resulted in under reporting almost all of the City’s employees’ pay, including the Police Chief’s pay by $66,951.83 a year? I have posted the original request, the data provided by the City, and exchanges with the City Attorney’s Office. A: As you may know, the California Supreme Court has held that the names and salaries of individual public employees should generally be public. International Federation of

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A&A: District won’t release legal bills from defending workers’ comp cases

FAC October 22, 2010

Q: My client has a worker’s compensation case with the school district and made a public records act request in order to determine how much the school district is spending in her case and in total for legal defense of workers’ compensation matters. It is our belief that the attorney is not settling cases for his own profit. The district refuses to turn over that information A: As I’m sure you know, under the Public

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Porterville retailers allege open meetings violation in agreement between city and Indian tribe

donal brown October 21, 2010

A group of Porterville retailers claim that the city council violated the Brown Act, the state’s open meeting law, when they made an agreement in closed session with the Tule River Indian Tribe. -db The Porterville Recorder October 21, 2010 By Denise Madrid A Cooperative Agreement made nearly six months ago during closed session between the City of Porterville and the Tule River Indian Tribe is being called into question by the Coalition of Retailers

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Secrecy holds for inventions increase

donal brown October 21, 2010

Secrecy News’ Steven Aftergood argues that the trend toward placing more and more inventions under secrecy orders is detrimental as a closed procedure without external review. He says increased secrecy hurts rather than enhances national security. -db Secrecy News Opinion October 21, 2010 By Steven Aftergood There were 5,135 inventions that were under secrecy orders at the end of Fiscal Year 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office told Secrecy News last week. It’s a

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California Supreme Court rejects appeal of mall attempting to curtail speech

donal brown October 21, 2010

A Northern California shopping mall lost its bid to stop a pastor from addressing shoppers about topics other than shopping. The appellate decision held that the state constitution protected “peaceful, consensual, spontaneous conversations between strangers.” -db San Francisco Chronicle October 21, 2010 By Bob Egelko The state Supreme Court rejected a shopping mall’s challenge Wednesday to a ruling that allows people at the mall – a pastor, in this case – to approach strangers and

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