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Business publication rates top 10 Obama administration open government programs

donal brown April 13, 2010

ExectiveBiz has published a list of its top open government programs, including many of direct help to business. -db ExecutiveBiz April 12, 2010 By Jim Garrettson Top 10 Open Government Programs Open Government has been a major priority of the Obama administration since the campaign trail, and last week was the publication deadline of each agency’s open government plan. Below, we’ve listed (in no particular order) our ten favorite open government initiatives and why they’re

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Move underway to hold Obama administration to higher standard on preserving official e-mail correspondence

donal brown April 13, 2010

A California House Republican has criticized a White House official for conducting official correspondence on Web-based e-mail that could easily be deleted. -db NextGov April 12, 2010 By Aliya Sternstein A House Republican is questioning the legality of a White House official’s reported use of Web-based e-mail to communicate with lobbyists at Google and high-ranking White House officials. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a

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San Juan Captistrano claim of innocence on open meeting violations comes into question

donal brown April 13, 2010

The San Juan Capistrano city attorney says that the city got a clean bill from the DA on Brown Act violations, but correspendence between the city attorney and the DA’s office indicates otherwise. -db Voice of OC April 13, 2010 By Adam Elmahrek San Juan Capistrano City Attorney Omar Sandoval says his city was found not to have violated the Brown Act, but correspondence revealed last week between Sandoval and Senior Assistant District Attorney William Feccia

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Santa Ana mayor pro tem accused of violating Califrornia’s open meetings law

donal brown April 13, 2010

A writer for TheLiberalOC.com criticizes the Santa Ana mayor pro tem for not affording all citizens equal treatment during the public comment segment of the council meetings. -db TheLiberalOC.com Opinion April 13, 2010 By Chris Prevatt At the April 5, 2010 meeting of the Santa Ana City Council, Mayor Miguel Pulido missed the meeting. The gavel fell into the hands of Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez. Not only did Alvarez fail to follow the Brown

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Tulare County: Newspaper and association join in lawsuit to stop county supervisors’ lunch meetings

donal brown April 13, 2010

To ensure that the Tulare County Board of Supervisors complies with California’s open meeting law, the local newspaper and the California Newspaper Pulbishers Association are joining a lawsuit to block the board from holding regular closed lunch meetings paid by the taxpayers and often attended by a board quorum. -db Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register April 12, 2010 By Valerie Gibbons The Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register and the California Newspaper Publishers Association have joined open-meetings watchdog Richard McKee

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