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California Brown Act Primer
The Ralph M. Brown Act, one of California’s main sunshine laws, is intended to provide public access to meetings of local government agencies.September 8, 2024
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Police Transparency Handbook
This resource is designed to help you navigate the law to access police use-of-force and officer misconduct records under the California Public Records Act.September 6, 2024
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Asked and Answered
Can A School District Bar The Public From School Closure Meetings?
[…] have asked for the public to be able to view the meetings, to observe, but this has been denied. The superintendent's advisory committee is not under the Brown Act. However, the public is not allowed to observe the meetings live or recorded. This is setting a precedent to ban the public from understanding how […]April 21, 2022
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A Guide to 2023 Open Meetings Law Changes
[…] public criticism of the policies, procedures, programs, or services of the agency, or of the acts or omissions of the legislative body. AB 2647 (Levine) codified at Government Code section 54957.5 AB 2647 allows local bodies to satisfy transparency requirements related to disclosure of records tied to business set for discussion or action at […]February 16, 2023
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Board Conducting Public’s Business Via Private Emails
[…] But, going forward, what is the process by which a Board can communicate electronically and still comply with the Brown Act? What are the rules? What process could one use to require the Board to make those emails a part of the public record? This must not be the first time this issue has arisen.June 24, 2010
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Governing Boards with Public Funds
I would like to know if governing Boards for co-ops that use public funds fall into the jurisdiction of the Brown Act or the Bagley-Keen open meeting act? If so how the Brown Act applies to these governing bodies?June 14, 2009
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Handbooks
California Public Records Act Primer
[…] with contributions from Advocacy Director Ginny LaRoe and Executive Director David Snyder. This handbook was updated in 2023 to reflect the renumbering of the California Public Records Act. The California Law Revision Commission has this table showing how previous sections of the Public Records Act were renumbered. This is for informational purposes only. It is not […]July 8, 2024
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Park & Rec “advisory committee” keeping its advice secret
[…] Of course, there are numerous exemptions that the parks and rec board might cite in response to a records request, including the Act's "catch-all" exemption, contained in Government Code § 6255(a). This exemption states that in order to justify withholding a record, the agency must show that "on the facts of the particular case […]August 8, 2011
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Are Community Action Agencies Subject to the Brown Act?
You would think that Community Action Agencies (nonprofit 501c3) would be subject to the Brown Act since they were created under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, are required to have one-third of their board made up of elected officials, and receive huge amounts of federal and state tax payer monies, etc. But a […]October 30, 2020
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