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  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Internal Decision-Making and the Brown Act

    After a city planning meeting, I was outside with the City manager and another neighbor talking about the meeting. It was in regards to building a complex by the river that runs threw our town. We (the neighborhood) are opposed to the complex and the meeting was to address that. She told us it […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Obligation to stated agenda

    Labor law requires that in order to negotiate a new contract the union's proposals must be presented in a public meeting. The School District agendized the sunshining of a teamsters union contract proposal but did not have the proposal available at the meeting or place the proposal on its website.  It only showed on […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act CPRA

    Can they deny my request for a video of a meeting that was streamed live?

    I have been denied my request for a copy of a videotape of a Town Hall Meeting that was streamed live over the Internet. They claim they can not release the video for personnel reasons I was also denied access to the County Sheriff Department's "Pink Slips," which are held in the reception office of […]

    June 12, 2015

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Obligation to post minutes if no action is taken

    If a public school Board district holds a special meeting, are they required to post the minutes ASAP for 10 days after the meeting even if no vote was taken? The superintendent has told me no minutes need to be taken unless action or a vote was taken?This "Special Meeting" had one agenda Item […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Did email exchange between committee members violate Brown Act?

    […] Committee, privately, on campus, that he would be moving to New York and would not be teaching anymore at our college. He said we would have a meeting about his leaving as soon as he learned about what sick time he had left, etc. He didn't know when it was he would be resigning. […]

    March 16, 2015

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Time restrictions on public comment at public meetings

    I am the chair sunshine task force and it came up in our recent meeting that mayor has recently, on occasion, limited public comments at council meetings to one minute rather than the normal two minutes because 25-20 people wanted to speak and the council meeting was "going late" at 10-11 pm and the […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Videotaped of open meeting and reproduction

    Re: CPRA request for audio taped record of open meeting: I have submitted a request for copies of tapes made of 3 open hospital board meetings, held within 3 weeks of each other. I submitted the request well before 30 days had passed from the first meeting, and before the minutes had been transcribed […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Public Commenting, The Brown Act, and Closed Session Items

    With respect to public comment at meetings subject to the Brown Act, the Act provides that "very agenda for regular meetings shall provide an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the legislative body on any item of interest to the public, before or during the legislative body's consideration of the item, […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Inaccurate agenda information at County Board meeting

    Is it a Brown Act violation to intentionally provide false information on the agenda, agenda description, or supporting documents provided with the agenda for a County Board meeting?

    April 15, 2016