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Brown Act

Did the Board chair violate the Brown Act by refusing public comment, holding a closed session?

[…] meeting. Is this a Brown Act violation? The bylaws for the board states the board will hold an election every two years in October to elect a new chair. The board has been requesting the Chair since last October to hold the election. In today’s meeting they pushed the issue and she told the […]

August 4, 2020
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Brown Act First Amendment

School Site Council tactics intimidate parents, public

[…] at which public comment was cut off by the chair. The individual was repeatedly ruled "out of order." The person was then ordered out of the meeting and, when he failed to comply, an armed police officer was summoned. The officer, however, determined that situation was not a police matter and refused to remove […]

February 3, 2012
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CPRA

Former State Employees and the CPRA

[…] Authority of my City, I recently went back to the Central Office building in which I worked to visit some personnel still working there. This building is open to the public and has public access areas, when I tried to enter the building I was informed by the security guard (per instructions from the […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act CPRA First Amendment

Utility District board member access to agenda information

I am a board member at my local Public Utility District. I requested information on an agenda item and did not receive it. I submitted questions for response and was denied. During the meeting I could not get any questions answered. Do have any advice as to what I can do?

March 30, 2016
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Brown Act

Are Search & Rescue Board Meetings subject to Brown Act?

Our Search and Rescue team is a 501.c.3 non-profit corporation, includes only volunteer members, operates under the Sheriff's Office and uses their facilities/vehicles, raises public donations, and includes two Sheriff Deputy Sergeants on the seven person Search and Rescue Board (they are not on the County Board). Are we subject to the Brown Act?

September 8, 2015
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Corporate transparency, long cherished as an essential feature of US capital markets, is giving way to the secrecy of “private equity” deals. Big mistake.

[…] the great strengths of the American economy has been the openness, relatively speaking, of its largest national corporations. Since the advent of federal securities regulation during the New Deal, big businesses have been required—as a condition of their gaining access to U.S. capital markets—to disclose gobs of information about their financial condition, performance and […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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FAC News Press Release

Announcing FAC’s 2014 Free Speech & Open Government Award Winners

[…] Speech & Open Government Award. This year FAC received 30 nominations covering the efforts of journalists, individuals, government officials, educators, attorneys, community groups, non-profit journalism organizations and newspapers. The two 2014 winners of this year’s awards use different methods to accomplish their goals --one upholding the finest traditions of investigative journalism and the other […]

December 2, 2014
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Trump By The Numbers: The Best of (New York) Times and the Worst of (New York) Times

[…] age of Trump, as told through some key numbers and a familiar Dickensian device: Story #1 (the best of times) In the last quarter of 2016, the New York Times had 276,000 new digital subscriptions, the largest three-month jump in six years, and in February the Times exceeded three million paid print and digital […]
- Press Freedom
March 15, 2017
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FAC Free Speech & Open Government Award winners honored at Cal Press Foundation 138th Annual Dinner Banquet

The 2015 recipients of the Free Speech & Open Government Award competition were honored Thursday, December 3 at the California Press Foundation’s 138th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The two winners of this year’s awards used different methods to accomplish their goals one upholding the finest traditions of community journalism and the other demonstrating […]
December 15, 2015
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Bert Robinson, veteran reporter, editor and open government advocate joins FAC Board

We are pleased to welcome Bert Robinson to the FAC Board of Directors. Robinson is managing editor of content for the Bay Ara News Group overseeing the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times and Oakland Tribune. "Bert is a life-long newspaper man having worked for the Mercury News since graduating from the Columbia […]

January 5, 2013