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Brown Act

Serial Meetings 101

A citizen here has asked the DA to investigate Riverside County supervisors for possible violation of the " serial meetings" provision of the Brown Act. Could someone explain to me exactly how a series of two-person conversations can violate the act? On a five-member board, if A discusses X with B, and then B discusses […]

June 14, 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Brown Act

Brown Act Compliance for Faculty Members Digitally Attending Academic Senate Meetings

[…] anywhere, if the faculty are identified, and the public has the identified room location at each of the campuses where they may attend, see and or hear the meeting, since for any vote there is a portion of the attendees that are not in the same room, and are identified by name for each matter?

May 15, 2018
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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
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Brown Act

Is a school board retreat required to be open to the public?

The Brown Act, Govt. Code section 54950 et seq., generally requires that all " meetings" of a covered board, such as a local school board, conduct its meetings in a manner that is publicly noticed and agendized and open to the public both to attend and to address the board during the meeting. The […]

July 16, 2013
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Brown Act

Signing In at Public Meetings

[…] of a "local agency"'" under Government Code §§ 54951-54952 of the Brown Act. "'Thus is subject to the requirements of the Brown Act, and must conduct its meetings in open sessions unless a statutory exception authorizes a closed or executive session.'" Kavanaugh v. West Sonoma County Union High School Dist., 29 Cal. 4th 911, […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act CPRA

Are city council subcommittees Brown Act-exempt?

[…] a new crop of Brown Act-exempt City Council subcommittees. I requested the subcommittees' mission statements, which I assumed were set out prior to commencement. Some have had four meetings thus far, and one as many as seven meetings. I have not received a response regarding the composition and purpose of the subcommittees with purported need […]

September 21, 2012