Schools watchdog Jim Reardon lost his suit against the Capistrano Unified School District when a judge ruled the district properly dealt with an alleged viiolation of California’s Brown Act, the open meeting law.
After Reardon challenged the district over a March closed door meeting to partially restore pay cuts to employees, the district met again to vote a second time on the issue. Reardon claimed they should have also admitted to violating the Brown Act.
But in the ruling, Superior Court Judge James El Loveder said the Brown Act does not required admitting the violation, only to remedy the alleged violation. -db
From the Orange County Register, August 25, 2011, by Scott Martindale.