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    In their handling of controversy surrounding Chemerinsky and Summers, UC’s leaders showed themselves unable or unwilling to defend academic freedom

    […] Erwin Chemerinsky, a liberal, as the dean of its new law school. Chancellor Michael Drake, rather than resisting pressure from conservative quarters to politicize a key academic appointment, fired Chemerinsky last week. (Later, apparently realizing that his action would do grave harm to the fledgling law school, Drake went hat-in-hand to Chemerinsky and publicly […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Minutes to be Approved Made Public

    […] a public meeting" of the committee must be made available when distributed to all or a majority of all the members of the committee.  Gov't Code section 54957.5(a).  Any other public record distributed during the meeting must be made available at the meeting, if prepared by the committee or a member of the committee, […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Requests for applications of public positions

    […] App. 4th 1136 (1997) and California First Amendment Coalition v. Superior Court, 67 Cal. App. 4th 159 (1998).  Both cases involved applications submitted to the Governor for appointment to vacancies on county boards of supervisors.  In both cases, the court of appeal held, for a variety of reasons, that the applications were exempt from […]

    June 14, 2009

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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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    Brown Act CPRA

    Recording public’s comments in board minutes

    […] at the meetings. With respect to the letters addressed to the legislative bodies, the Brown Act makes such documents accessible under the California Public Records Act.  Section 54957.5 of the Brown Act provides, in part: "(a) Notwithstanding Section 6255 or any other provisions of law, agendas of public meetings and any other writings, when […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Can my access to public records be limited to “by appt. only”?

    […] spending a lot of time inspecting the minutes of a local business improvement district. This week they changed their office hours from M-F 8:30-5:30 to be by appointment only, and this greatly limits my ability to look at documents in their office. Their staff is in the office during the old hours, but they […]

    August 26, 2016

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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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    How Trump’s War on Free Speech Threatens the Republic

    […] where it hurts (the wallet) and subjecting them to legal harassment. This is especially so in the 22 states that lack anti-SLAPP statutes—laws that facilitate the rapid dismissal of libel claims without merit. The VanderSloot lawsuit is instructive. Although a court in Idaho ultimately threw out all the billionaire’s claims against Mother Jones, the […]

    June 6, 2017