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Q: The Department of Social Services (DSS) has a  quarterly  “advocacy coalition meeting” where DSS employees and legislative analysts offer status on current or pending legislation, and provide clarification of regulatory language or regulatory implementation policy and procedures to an audience of statewide advocacy organizations including consumer groups and Ombudsman’s offices. There are no ground rules established at the beginning of the meeting that the meeting is ”closed” or that the state’s position on any

Q: My son was attempting to defend a friend and himself from some attackers and in the process was charged with assault. He went to an arraignment hearing yesterday and was shown the police report, witness statements and other documents. He was rushed through the process without the public defender or city attorney seeing a clear picture of what really happened. We are now trying to obtain copies of these documents and keep running into

Q: Please clarify for me the requirements of Brown Act compliance for a private nonprofit. We are members of an electric cooperative. As  members of the cooperative we are each eligible to be board members.  The elected directors make determinations on how operating capital is expended and invested. There has recently been allegations of fraud and theft among leading employees and directors of the board and the Attorney for the group is claiming they are