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    Bagley-Keene Act Brown Act CPRA

    Can finalists for city jobs be kept secret?

    Is their any state law allowing the city to keep the names of an advisory committee recommending finalists for a governmental job secret?  Our city manager came up with a secret panel to help select finalists for police chief and then refused to reveal their names until their work was done.

    March 18, 2010

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    Does the Brown Act Offer Recourse for Activists Barred from City Council Meeting?

      I am part of a coalition of anti-illegal immigration activists. We have been protesting and attending City Council meetings because they appointed two illegal aliens to city commissions. When we attend city council meetings they can get raucous. At a June meeting, our group and those activists supporting illegal immigration were sequestered in the […]

    February 12, 2018

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    Brown Act

    Charter board meetings flout Brown Act rules

    Can Charter Boards hold special meetings, with limited notice on just any subject? Can they go into closed session and report out publicly that no action was taken, then order the CEO to do what was decided in the closed session? Can a vote be taken to approve signature of a disclosure filing that […]

    June 8, 2011

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    CPRA Police Records

    Writer denied access to coroner’s report on 1947 Black Dahlia case

    […] is a public agency, you can also try requesting the records directly from the museum. The CPRA applies to nearly all information held by state or local government agencies.  The CPRA applies to all local agencies, as well as legislative bodies subject to the Brown Act.  Gov’t Code § 6252(a), which incorporates Gov’t Code […]

    June 10, 2015

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    Brown Act

    aa-Housing Authority Board of Commissioners and the Brown Act

    […] all such postings the agenda item for public comment is listed after all other items for discussion have been listed. The Brown Act specifies that Public Comment must occur prior to or during the discussion of agenda items. My question: is this posting in violation of the act because it is misleading that public […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act FOIA

    Are the Board of Directors of our Apartment Complex subject to the Brown Act?

    The California Public Records Act ("PRA") provides that public records are presumptively open to the public, unless exempt from disclosure under the PRA.  Government Code section 6254(k) exempts from disclosure "records the disclosure of which is exempted or prohibited pursuant to federal or state law."  Section 49076 of the California Education Code specifically prohibits […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Homeowner’s Association, the Brown Act, and tape recording

    […] my right under California law to record meeting". Police would not take any action in civil matter.  The board adjourned meeting for two weeks. The board says they are not subject to the Brown Act.  An Oct. 2 LA Times article says recent decisions declare members have right to tape. Can you clarify this issue?

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    New rule places unreasonable time restraints on public comments

    […] "limited public forums," or areas that traditionally have not been made open to the public, but have become public forums for at least some purposes because the government body that regulates a particular area has made it available for use by the public. The same high standard that applies to public forums — the […]

    March 5, 2012