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Brown Act

How do we enforce the Brown Act?

[…] the District Attorney to prosecute violations as misdemeanors. Govt. Code section 54959. The other is by way of private enforcement actions brought as civil lawsuits by individuals. Government Code section 54960. Such private actions may be brought to declare actions taken in violation of the Brown Act null and void, or to declare that […]

December 22, 2011
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Brown Act

Public Funds and the CPRA

[…] is authority for the proposition that agencies that are subject to the Brown Act are subject to the PRA, as well. The definition of "local agency" under Government Code Section 6252 includes "nonprofit entities that are legislative bodies of a local agency pursuant to subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 54952 ." Section 54952(c) […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Labor negotiations and the Brown Act

[…] Brown Act for certain employee evaluations. This "personnel exception" permits closed sessions to "consider the appointment, employment, evaluation of performance, discipline, or dismissal of a public employee." Government Code 54957(b)(1). However, section 54957(b)(4) further provides: "Closed sessions . . . shall not include discussion or action on proposed compensation except for a reduction of […]

June 14, 2009
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Juvenile Justice Commissions and the Brown Act

Are the meetings of Juvenile Justice Commissions, which are entities created by California W & I Code Set. 225, governed by the Brown Act?

June 14, 2009
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Government officials should listen to voters instead of lawyers selling strategies for blocking access to information

Regardless of what they say to the contrary, government agencies are in the business of withholding information from the public (or, what amounts to the same thing, disclosing only that information that the agencies want the public to have). This tight-fistedness about information is written into government's DNA. But some efforts to withhold information […]
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March 24, 2014
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Brown Act

Intimidation of Journalists

[…] to task about questions asked of a third member by a reporter. They referred to emails from the third council member on their laptops and also with written and printed form. The story questioned alliances the city council members have with a large developer in our area. Was this a violation of the Brown Act?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Can I access emails of city employees using personal emails for city business?

[…] public officials using private email accounts and mobile phones to conduct the public's business seems to be becoming a pervasive problem. It would seem that if a government official uses a personal email account to send messages relating to the conduct of the public's business, a strong argument could be made that those messages […]

November 17, 2011
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CPRA

Private institutions, public funds and the CPRA

[…] local agencies. Under certain circumstances outlined in section 54952(c) of the Brown Act (incorporated into the PRA by section 6252 of the PRA), entities that are legislative bodies of a local agency may be subject to the PRA. Section 54952(c) defines "legislative body" as:"(c) (1) A board, commission, committee, or other multimember body that […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

What Are the Brown Act Rules on a Postponing Public Meeting?

[…] issues. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation. No attorney-client relationship has been formed by way of this response.

April 15, 2019
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Brown Act

Co-op non-profits

[…] a general rule, open meeting laws (such as the most commonly-applied, the Brown Act, which governs the public's access to meetings of local agencies), only apply to government agencies. The only private entity subject to the Brown Act is a "board, commission, committee or other multimember body that governs a private corporation or entity […]

June 14, 2009