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  • Latest News

    Proposition

    […] Obama's aides to get him to surrender his Blackberry, on which Obama had relied to escape the bubble that descends on leading presidential contenders, not to mention elected presidents. I argued that the aides' concerns about legal and security constraints were overblown and urged Obama to keep the Blackberry---and to use it, while President, […]

    June 3, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment

    In Texas, town hall meeting nixed videotaping

    […] is defined as: (A) a board, commission, department, committee, or agency within the executive or legislative branch of state government that is directed by one or more elected or appointed members; (B) a county commissioners court in the state; (C) a municipal governing body in the state; (D) a deliberative body that has rulemaking […]

    August 1, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Prohibiting a citizen from contacting a public agency

    […] the designated PRA contact person.  However, nothing prevents you from contacting public officials. Furthermore, generally speaking, it is unconstitutional for government agencies to prohibit public employees and elected officials from speaking to the public or even from making public comments to the media. There are, however, certain exceptions to this general rule.  The instances […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Latest News

    Cases Press Release

    FAC Seeks to Unseal Gov. Brown’s Request to Pardon Embattled Former State Senator

    […] "We believe the state and federal constitution, prohibit this practice—and there is an intense public interest in seeing these records, in particular as they pertain to an elected official convicted of serious felonies.." The motion comes after FAC requested the records from the Supreme Court by person at the clerk's office and by sending […]

    November 20, 2018

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Community College Senates, the Brown Act, and Secret Ballots

    I am a member of a College Academic Senate, a body of 15 elected faculty members representing the faculty at large and governed by open meeting regulations, including the Brown Act. The Senate violated the Brown Act by conducting a secret ballot and a group of faculty brought a petition for a referendum vote by […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Latest News

    FAC partners with Online News Association to assist digital journalists

    […] ONA," said Peter Scheer, executive director of FAC. "FAC wants to be a legal resource to digital journalists so they can overcome the objections of bureaucrats and elected officials who want to withhold information." "Democracy can’t work unless the people know what government is doing," Scheer continued. "Digital journalists are an increasingly important source […]

    May 19, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Accessing Government Phone Records

    I am researching a public records request.  It is my understanding, post Prop 59, that the public paid for cell phone and desk phone records of elected officials are available for review by citizens/news organizations, etc. and that privilege can not be invoked by a municipality or local government to redact the incoming and […]

    June 14, 2009