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With recent allegations of violations of open meeting laws, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission is again under attack as one of its commissioners accused it of transparency lapses. A Governor Jerry Brown appointee, Bill Chadwick, said the staff ducked his questions about a hiring and failed to report a previous meeting between the job candidate, a commissioner and a county lawyer.  (Los Angeles Times, May 5, 2016, by Rong-Gong Lin II) The Whittier City

The Orange County District Attorney’s office reported that the Garden Grove officials settled a dispute with a former fire chief in closed sessions without reporting the details of the meetings. The chief resigned after the city agreed to create a new job for him with a salary about the same as his salary as chief. (The Orange County Register, February 24, 2016, by Chris Haire) Los Altos officials suspended meetings of their parking committee to

A California assemblyman has introduced a bill to require public agencies to require written responses when denying requests under the California Public Records Act. The response must include a the identification of each record withheld under an exemption and a specification of the exemption that applies. (The San Diego Union-Tribune, February 1, 2016, by Steven Greenhut) The California Attorney Kamala Harris issued an opinion last week that if third-party Internet problems deny public access to

A bill passed by the California legislature and signed by Governor Jerry Brown establishes that the State Bar is subject to the Bagley-Keene Open Meetings Act and the California Public Records Act. (Metropolitan News-Enterprise, October 7i, 2015, by a MetNews Staff Writer) The Oakdale city manager is asking the council to change the ordinance for the Oakdale Tourism Business Improvement District to specify that all meetings be announced with agendas published beforehand. (Oakdale Leader, October