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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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    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. […]

    June 2, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Can settlements be negotiated in closed session if no pending litigation exists?

    […] district has held a series (over 6 months) of closed sessions. It appears that the district is negotiating a water rights transfer or deal with another local water district. They cannot negotiate jointly a "settlement" agreement if no "pending" litigation exists. Isn't this a violation of the Brown Act? If so, what is the recourse?

    June 14, 2009

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    For Sunshine Week, CFAC to lead LA discussion on national security and 1st Amendment

    Discussion on Open Government will follow L.A. Theatre Works March 13 Production of Pentagon Papers Docudrama California First Amendment Coalition Director Peter Scheer to Lead Panel Washington — Sunshine Week will host a discussion on open government and secrecy issues following a Thursday, March 13, L.A. Theatre Works production of "Top Secret: The Battle […]

    June 2, 2009

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    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

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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 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

    Does the Brown Act allow closed sessions to appoint legal firm?

    As you are aware, California Government Code § 54957(b)(1) is a provision of the Brown Act that grants agencies the right to hold closed session meetings to consider the appointment, employment, evaluation of performance, discipline, or dismissal of a public employee. Yet, the California Constitution and a series of case law requires that the […]

    January 31, 2012

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    In taping a reporter, AG Brown’s spokesman showed bad judgment, but did he break the law?

    BY PETER SCHEER --- Attorney General Jerry Brown's spokesman Scott Gerber was unceremoniously "disappeared" from Brown's incipient gubernatorial campaign this week because of a lapse in judgment that, quite frankly, has been overblown. Gerber's mistake: to surreptitiously record a  phone conversation with a reporter,  which was later discovered because Gerber, in a plea for […]

    November 4, 2009