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In settling a claim by a retired police officer involving sexual harassment and disability, Atherton officials failed to make the settlement public until a month later. -DB The Almanac January 6, 2010 By Andrea Gemmet Atherton officials said that the failure to inform residents about a $230,000 pay-out to a former police officer was an oversight, and one that won’t happen again. In late October, the town reached a settlement with Pilar Ortiz-Buckley, a now-retired

A member of the Garen Grove Unified School District said she left this week’s school board meeting because of a deal brokered between three other board members just minutes before the start of the meeting to nominate each other for board president and vice president . She claimed that the deal was a violation of the Brown Act, California’s open government law. -DB The Orange County Register January 6, 2010 By Deepa Bharath GARDEN GROVE, Calif.

A Solano County supervisor alleged that three of her colleagues decided ahead of a meeting to block her becoming board chair thus violating California’s Brown Act that provides for open government. -DB The Reporter January 6, 2010 By Danny Bernardini Solano County leaders started the new year the same way they ended 2009: with infighting and 3-2 votes. During the opening moments of the Board of Supervisors’ first meeting of 2010, the vote for a