California’s Attorney General Kamala Harris demonstrated the long reach of the state’s open meeting law, the Brown Act, in her opinion that for majority of a Southern California city council to take an invitation-only tour of a Northern California water district facility would be a violation of the law.
Harris also said that even if properly noticed and inclusive, holding a meeting at such a distance from the city would limit public access and further pose a problem under the Brown Act. -db
From the Metropolitan News-Enterprise, August 30, 2011, by Kenneth Ofgang.