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Brown Act

Can Local Government Hold Public Meetings in A Federal Building Where No Cameras Are Allowed?

Is it legal for a body subject to the Brown Act to hold their regular meeting in a federal building where we have been told to take our cameras back to our cars?

June 14, 2018
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Brown Act

Can A Public Official Interrupt A Speaker During Public Comment Time?

[…] the Supervisor's outburst seemed to me to be an attempt discredit my very valid comments. In addition, it is my perception the Supervisor's outburst was to intimidate me from any further public comment regarding the subject. Can you offer me any assistance whether such actions by the Supervisor have violated in anyway the Brown Act?

May 30, 2018
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Brown Act

Posting agendas and notification of action in special/closed sessions

A School Board is subject to the Brown Act yet a principal was dismissed without cause after a Special meeting /closed session in which no one was notified nor was it posted at the site where the meeting was held (it was posted on a website) nor has the decision been posted for the ten […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Must An Agency Provide Translation Services for Board Members Who Need Them?

We work with a number of local water boards. Community Service Districts and Public Utility Districts. which are required to comply with the Brown Act. The boards we work with are typically in disadvantaged communities, where Spanish is the language of a large number of residents (if not the majority). I have been trying […]

December 14, 2020
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Brown Act First Amendment

What the Brown Act Rules on a Postponing Public Meeting?

My employer—a Business Improvement District—had a regularly scheduled board meeting that per our contract with the City must be open to the public. Thirty minutes before the meeting the executive director sent me home, due to my failure to respond to a text message while on my lunch hour. In the past, myself and […]

December 13, 2018
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Government officials beware: the “private” emails you write today will be public tomorrow

It has become a regrettably common practice. . . . Local government officials, when sending emails about government business, use their private email accounts--rather than their dot-gov accounts--to assure that the messages will never see the light of day. In a case involving the city of San Jose, a Superior Court judge recently ruled […]
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April 24, 2013
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Brown Act CPRA

Special District Compliance

Which State Agency and/or which State Department oversees, enforce, and/or investigate Special District compliance with California Government Codes: Mitigation Fees (Sections 66000), Brown Act and Public Records Act?

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act CPRA

Recording public’s comments in board minutes

To what extent must a public district board include in their monthly board of directors meeting minutes, which are available to the public, verbatim or synopsized comments made by the public at the prior month’s public board meeting? Can a district board elect not to include any or all such public comments from board […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act First Amendment

Can the city manager demand political cartoons removed from senior center?

[…] When asked, the City Manager responded that this is not a violation of the Brown Act because this was material posted in a city owned building, and government code section 54954.3 (c) of the Brown Act does not apply. Is this the case? What are the senior’s rights on this issue? It seems to […]

November 18, 2011
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First Amendment

In Texas, town hall meeting nixed videotaping

Is there an equivalent of a Brown Act for Texas? I was at a Congressional town hall meeting, and a member of the Congresswoman's staff told me I was not allowed to video record the meeting. Is that legal?

August 1, 2011