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Bagley-Keene Act Brown Act

Can Elected Officials Be Seated in the Audience During Meetings?

` Are elected officials allowed to sit in the audience while acting in their official capacity during meetings?

February 12, 2018
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CPRA

Is the list of employees taking voluntary buyouts a public document?

[…] are leased to private companies, which operate the hospitals and employ doctors, nurses and other staff. Even these privately run hospitals may be subject to the PRA. Government Code section 6252(a) specifically provides that the Act applies to "entities that are legislative bodies of a local agency pursuant to subdivisions (c) and (d) of […]

August 27, 2010
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CPRA School Records

Cities’ rights and the CPRA

[…] This, to me, is not a life threatening problem. Are they allowed to with hold this information? Second, I read the code as saying that every entity must have a posting of the law someplace AND a "person" responsible for handling request. Am I correct in this or do state agencies have different rules […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Is it a Brown Act violation to hold a virtual meeting without telephone access for those without the internet?

Our County held an online public meeting as required by the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), but failed to provide a phone number for anyone who might not have online access. Is this a Brown Act violation?

July 7, 2020
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CPRA

Are government employee hiring records accessible under the CPRA?

[…] background on CPRA personnel exemption It is possible an exemption for "personnel, medical, or similar files" would apply to a records request for hiring records for a government position, because such records are not released to a CPRA requester if disclosure "would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy." Govt. Code § 7927.700. This […]

May 16, 2025
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CPRA

Can my former employer disclose my personnel records under the CPRA?

I resigned from my job at a government entity. I submitted a CPRA request to my former workplace, seeking records related to disciplinary actions taken against me. My former workplace responded, providing only some records and stating the remaining records are exempt under Government Code Sections 7922.000, 7927.700, and 7927.705. It did not provide […]

May 15, 2025
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Make no mistake, China’s censorship of the internet is a crime against liberty on a mass scale. Still, American firms can’t just steer clear of the world’s biggest market. What to do?

[…] double-digit rates, China’s internet is a business opportunity so grand and irresistible that it can blind normally circumspect people to the moral compromises that cooperation with Chinese government authorities inevitably entails. I experienced this first-hand when, about a year ago, I made inquiries at the China offices of a number of American law firms […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Everyone Hates Julian Assange—Except For That Time They Used to Love Him

[…] speech and a free press. Do you claim to support a free press? Assange has a document release that will test that belief. Do you believe in government transparency? Wikileaks has very likely caused you to impose some limits on that belief—limits that may well be tied to your partisan orientation. Espionage Act Prosecution […]
- Press Freedom
December 15, 2018
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Ballot measure to subdivide CA assumes smaller government is closer to voters. But it’s also closer to special interests.

[…] the political arena is a ballot initiative to subdivide California into six states of roughly equal size. This proposal faces serious hurdles, not least that the federal government would say no, even if California voters, against all odds, endorsed Draper's mini-Californias idea. By raising the state's US senator count from two to twelve, Draper's […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 26, 2014
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Brown Act

Spanish Translator at School Board Meetings

With respect to the meetings of local government bodies such as school boards, the public's right to attend, receive notice of, and otherwise access those meetings is governed by the Brown Act, Govt. Code section 54950 et seq. While the Brown Act requires that certain translation services be provided to disabled persons in accordance […]

June 14, 2009