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    Brown Act

    Dealing with a cure and correct notice in a closed session

    Government Code Section 54957 provides that boards may hold closed meetings to "consider the appointment, employment, evaluation of performance, discipline, or dismissal of a public employee or to hear complaints or charges brought against the employee by another person or employee unless the employee requests a public session."  (Full text of Section 54957 reproduced […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    School Board Voted In Secret to Pick New Superintendent

    […] the Brown Act does permit for some discussions to be held behind closed doors, but these exceptions are to be construed narrowly. With respect to hiring decisions,Section 54957(b) permits a legislative body of a local agency to hold a closed sessions during a regular or special meeting "to consider the appointment, employment, evaluation of […]

    December 10, 2018

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    Brown Act

    School Board Closed Sessions with Administrators

    […] employee requests a public session, but note that the term "employee"  does not include an elected official or a member of a legislative body (Gov't Code § 54957) -To discuss and decide whether an applicant for a license or license renewal who has a criminal record is sufficiently rehabilitated to obtain the license (Gov't […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Can I use information revealed in closed session, or is it privileged?

    […] its requirement that all legislative deliberations occur in open session, one of which is "to consider the…performance, discipline, or dismissal of a public employee."  Gov’t Code § 54957(b). If the meeting in question was to discuss disciplinary action, the Board may have properly met in closed session, but was required to post an agenda […]

    September 1, 2016

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    Brown Act

    Closed Session Voting

    […] employee, or to hear complaints or charges brought against the employee by another person or employee, unless the employee requests a public session."  Cal Gov't Code § 54957(b)(1).  With regard to the confidentiality of closed sessions, the Brown Act provides that "a person may not disclose confidential information that has been acquired by being […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Closed sessions under the Brown Act

    […] requests a public session, but note that the term "employee" does not include an elected official or a member of a legislative body.  (Cal. Gov't Code § 54957(a)(2).)  Please note, however, that the term "employee" does not include any elected official or member of the legislative body.  (Cal. Gov't Code § 54957(a)(4).) —To discuss […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Circumstances for closed meetings

    […] posing a threat to the security of public buildings or a threat to the public's right of access to public services or public facilities" (Gov't Code § 54957) —To consider the appointment, employment, evaluation or performance, discipline, or dismissal of a public employee, or to hear complaints or charges brought against the employee by […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    School Superintendent Goals: Public or Private?

    […] meet in closed session.  Under the Brown Act, the school board could meet in a closed to evaluate the performance of a school superintendent.  Govt. Code §  54957(b); Duval v. Board of Trustees of Coalinga-Huron Joint Unified School District, 93 Cal. App. 4th 902, 909-10.  Closed sessions are limited in scope, however, only to discussions that […]

    August 14, 2014

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    Brown Act

    Is a contracted City Attorney a city employee?

    Are contracted City Attorneys considered city employees? I'm asking because the city I cover has scheduled a closed-session meeting to review the job performance of its City Attorney. This comes at a time when a few council members want to replace the current attorney, who charges $130 per hour, with a full-time, in-house attorney […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Convening in closed sessions

    […] are a 5-member board and 4 trustees want to participate in the site visit, which will be outside our District boundaries.  We want to fully investigate the performance of our finalist with face-to-face interviews with co-workers, parents, community members, etc. We fully intend to post an agenda once we determine who our finalist will […]

    June 14, 2009