Write a review of FAC to help us keep our Top Rated Nonprofit status!

Search Results

Showing 311 - 320 of 1770 results

Showing results for government bodies must comply brown act 54951 act90 54951 act 54951 act90 54951 54951 54951

Asked and Answered

Brown Act

Does the Brown Act require meeting minutes?

The High School District board stopped taking minutes at their meetings? Can they do that under the Brown Act?

April 13, 2015
Asked and Answered

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
Latest News

Blog

CFAC Update: Acting globally and locally: From internet censorship in China to a TRO against Atherton, CA

[…] both globally and locally, in the last 2 months. First globally: CFAC has initiated a proceeding that will attempt to use international trade laws to force the government of China to end its censorship of the internet. In a submission and presentation to the Office of the US Trade Representative, CFAC has petitioned for […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
Latest News

Blog

Leak investigation of Fox News’ Rosen crosses red line by obtaining journalist’s email contents, not just data

[…] Rosen, a reporter for Fox News. The criticism has focused on the revelation, contained in a 2010 FBI affidavit used to obtain a search warrant, that the government then viewed Rosen not merely as a witness, someone who possessed evidence about the source of a national security leak, but as an indictable law-breaker. Rosen's […]
- Press Freedom
May 29, 2013
Asked and Answered

Brown Act

Access to agenda attachments

Does a government body subject to the Brown Act also have to provide access to the attachments to agenda items 48 hours before the meeting? If so, do they have to also provide copies of the attachments upon request if the person pays the copying fee? I am referring to attachments that make up […]

June 14, 2009
Asked and Answered

Brown Act

Board member shared confidential information after closed session

[…] am finishing out the school year. However, within a week of this decision, made and executed during a closed session, I learned from two different reliable sources that two Board members had shared this decision with at least three different staff members. What are my rights? What, if any, course of action can I take?

September 9, 2016
Asked and Answered

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
Asked and Answered

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
Asked and Answered

Brown Act

Do I Have a Right to Remain Anonymous During Public Meetings Held on Zoom During the Pandemic?

I've attended some meetings of a local government in California recently and they've started using Zoom to conduct the meetings because of the local COVID-19 public health orders. I've set up my Zoom sign-on to identify me as "John Q. Public," which as you can probably guess isn't my real name. But they do […]

August 7, 2020
Latest News

Blog

Tracy case tests the power of government officials to avoid disclosure of their emails on public business

[…] By Peter Scheer Those enterprising members of the Tracy City Council have come up with a strategy to hide from public view all their written communications about government business. With a bit of legal legerdemain, they claim to be able to evade state open-government laws, transforming their communications from public records into private correspondence. […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
June 2, 2009