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Future Council Members, Participation, and the Brown Act

[…] Planning Commission. The likely hearing date is Sept. 18th, before we are on the Council. The mayor (who supports the project) says that it would violate the Brown Act if, as future members, either of us participated in the appeal or spoke to the Council during the appeal meeting. (We both regularly address the […]

June 14, 2009
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Special meeting and the Brown Act

[…] have argued with the Secretary of the Oakland School Board that when the Brown Act says notice, it means that the notice of a school board meeting must include a statement notifying the public they will have the opportunity to speak on the agenda items for a special meeting. However, the Board Secretary feels […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act First Amendment

Does Brown Act Permit City Council’s New Rules of Decorum?

[…] this statutory requirement, the First Amendment guards against regulations that are too restrictive of speech. Regulations should be "content neutral" and narrowly tailored to serve a significant government interest, and they must allow ample alternative channels of communication. See, e.g., Perry Educ. Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators’ Ass’n, 460 U.S. 37, 45 (1983). Generally […]

May 21, 2018
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Brown Act First Amendment

Stripped of First Amendment Rights By City Council

[…] its agenda. Public forum or not, the usual first amendment antipathy to content-oriented control of speech cannot be imported into the Council chambers intact." Id. While the governmental body may not stop a speaker from speaking because the moderator disagrees with the viewpoint expressed, it may stop the speaker if his or her speech […]

December 4, 2018
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US Supreme Court ‘government speech’ rulings should curb government misuse of anti-SLAPP laws

BY PETER SCHEER--Does the first amendment apply to government speech? In recent decisions, the Supreme Court has answered that question in the negative. Constitutional free speech protections apply to people (and corporations and other private legal entities), but they do not limit or regulate governmental speech, the Court declared. The implications of this doctrine […]
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December 22, 2015
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Brown Act

Minutes of City Council meetings don’t tell whole story

[…] body must make those records "available for public inspection at the meeting." Gov't Code Â§ 54957.5(b). Of course, it would seem to be a good practice by the government to make materials easily accessible to the public as soon as they are given to members of the legislative body. It may be that there is […]

March 7, 2014
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Brown Act CPRA

City-Funded Committees with Non-Public Official Member

[…] were on the committee. The City was asked this question because there is a concern that individuals that were on the committee may benefit directly or indirectly from land purchases the City will make with the open space tax monies. I would like to know your opinion on the City's compliance with the Brown Act.

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act Newsgathering

Reporters wrongly ejected from community college council meeting?

I am working on a story about how two of our reporters were ejected from a college council meeting. The chair of the committee believes that their body is not subject to the Brown Act. This committee makes planning, budget and policy recommendations to the college president.

July 19, 2013
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Cure and correct Brown Act violations

Under Government Code section 54952(b), any "commission, committee, board or other body of a local agency, whether permanent or temporary, decision making or advisory, charged by charter, ordinance, resolution, or formal action of a legislative body " is subject to the public notice and public meeting requirements of the Brown Act. As for the […]

June 14, 2009
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Internal Decision-Making and the Brown Act

[…] 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 did not matter, and that it was going to pass anyway, despite of our complaints. Is that a Brown Act violation?

June 14, 2009