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  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Is it a Brown Act violation to move item from closed to open session?

    […] when councilmembers voted 5-0 to move a closed-session item, described only with the name of an individual to the Regular Agenda. Can you tell me if it was proper for the City Council to move a closed-session item to the Regular Agenda during the Open Meeting without proper notice that it would be discussed in open session?

    March 13, 2014

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    Advocacy Blog

    Despite the complaints of blogger-critics, new federal shield bill is last best chance for meaningful protection of reporters’ confidential sources.

    […] all states have shield laws, they do not apply to the subpoenas of federal courts and federal grand juries: a big gap in coverage that inevitably restricts news reporting on controversial matters involving the federal government. News of the Obama Justice Department's overzealous investigation of leaks to the press--in particular, leaks of information to […]

    September 17, 2013

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    No vote on new superintendent, but of consensus reached in closed session

    The School Board announced last night that they had narrowed the field of candidates for superintendent to one finalist when reporting out of closed session. But no vote was taken. The board president emailed me today that they had reached consensus. How can they do that without a vote being taken? Is that legal?

    August 26, 2016

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    Brown Act

    School Board Voted In Secret to Pick New Superintendent

    Our group plus hundreds of teachers, parents, and community activists protested against the secret meeting that the city school board to pick the new yet controversial superintendent. We believe that the closed and secret meeting violated several provisions of the Brown Act and we would like help in understanding how the Brown Act applies […]

    December 10, 2018

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    Blog

    2007 Open Government Legislative Roundup: Some successes and some failures

    2007 Open Government Legislative Roundup: Some successes and some failures By Nick Rahaim The 2007 legislative session started with a host of promising bills that would have created more transparency and would have reversed recent judicial and Attorney General opinions permitting excessive secrecy. There were some successes and some disappointments. The major disappointment was […]

    June 3, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment

    1st amendment right to porn denied by senior center

    My local city-run senior center censors books, magazines, films, internet and bulletin-board postings. Though it is a senior center, they pretend to have the right to ban pornography or whatever they deem "inappropriate." As a senior citizen, I say I have the right to full internet access, to put off-color books, magazines and films […]

    June 10, 2013

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act First Amendment

    Public right to to speak denied at school board meetings

    I need help defending the  public's right to speak at open meetings. At school board meetings, board members will not let members of the public comment for the established time of three minutes. School district staff speaks for three minutes and then the public gets three minutes. Often times the chair does not allow […]

    November 2, 2010

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    Brown Act

    Appointing board members and the Brown Act

    […] be made available to the public on the school website and only those applications received by November 1st of the year prior to elections will be considered.  New Board members are elected at the Board's February regular meeting.  However, nothing shall prohibit the Board from drafting new Board members at any time during the […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Press Rights

    Governor Brown decides fate of open-government bills

    […] website, run by the Secretary of State, tracking lobbying and campaign finance activity. Governor Brown signed the bill, which requires campaign committees to pay a $50 annual registration fee on and increases by $25 the amount lobbyists must pay when they register with the state. The bill is expected to generate $600,000, which will […]

    October 12, 2012

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    Cases

    Amici Briefs Digest – Sept. 2018

    […] thus less protected under the First Amendment. The amicus brief argues that the answer is "no," and that, thus, the anti-SLAPP statute applies. Higginbotham v. City of New York—This amicus brief, filed in the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals by the National Press Photographers’ Association, argued that an action for First Amendment retaliatory […]

    September 20, 2018