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    Brown Act

    Public notice and disclosure of existing litigation

    […] notice to say that, but the real question would be whether the school district has a good faith reason to believe that disclosure of the case name really would jeopardize negotiations. Finally, if the school district settles the case, section 54957.1 requires that it disclose the fact of settlement and the substance of the terms.

    June 14, 2009

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    Tom Burke and Quentin Kopp join FAC Board

    Thomas Burke The First Amendment Coalition is delighted to announce the appointment of two new members of its Board of Directors: Thomas Burke, a prominent lawyer specializing in first amendment, intellectual property and media litigation; and Quentin Kopp, former Superior Court judge, State Senator and San Francisco Supervisor. Quentin Kopp Burke is a partner […]

    October 2, 2014

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Proposals and Public Records, Limiting Public Comment

    […] body prior to a meeting to educate them on the pending business, these documents are accessible to the public under the California Public Records Act ("PRA").  Section 54957.5 of the Brown Act states that "agendas of public meetings and any other writings, when distributed to all, or a majority of all, of the members […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    City-Funded Committees with Non-Public Official Member

    […] of meeting agendas, and information required to be provided as part of the public report of action taken in closed session, as provided by Government Code section 54957.1.  However, this wouldn't cover your current inquiry for a list of names of members of the open space committee. If you have not already done so, […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Blog

    A California Perspective on AG Alberto Gonzales’ Problems

    […] the emails. Although the administration has invoked executive privilege to resist Congressional demands that executive branch officials testify in public and under oath about the US Attorney- dismissals, there has been no similar tug-of-war over the emails. Secretive as the federal government is in many areas, its deliberations are an open book compared to […]

    June 2, 2009

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    California Public Records Act Primer

    […] then-Governor Deukmejian, and has since been applied in other contexts, including records of phone calls by city council members, and records regarding applications to the Government for appointment to fill vacancies on county boards of supervisors. According to the Supreme Court, "the key question in every case is whether disclosure of the materials would […]

    July 8, 2024

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    Brown Act

    Personal attacks in public meetings

    The only provision in the Brown Act concerning disorderly conduct is found in section 54957.9.  This section permits a legislative body to exclude all persons who willfully cause a disruption of a meeting so that it cannot be conducted in an orderly fashion.  Although this provision is typically applied in open meetings to exclude […]

    June 14, 2009