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  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Secret ballots violate Brown Act

    […] Meeting today where the Council appointed members to an advisory board. The appointments were done in open session, but by secret ballot. After announcing the matter, taking questions and comments, the city council sat at the dias w/microphones off, each wrote their choices for the board on a piece of paper and handed them […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Blog

    Announcing FAC’s “Kiss” and “Kiss-Off” awards

    In keeping with the new normal of polarized politics, FAC has launched a new feature that views the world of First Amendment issues as consisting of good guys and bad guys. The good guys, on whom we bestow a "First Amendment Kiss," are people and institutions who, by their acts, words, or example, strengthen […]

    September 3, 2010

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    Brown Act CPRA

    City Council editing public meeting videos

    […] a complaint. He had an officer escort me into an interrogation room. They took my contact information. No recording as required or the triplicate form. I go online and to the Police Commission website and to my amazement the audio of the entire meeting is erased and inserted is a section of a City Council […]

    July 30, 2015

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    Brown Act

    City Planning Commission failure to address public comment

    I recently submitted comments for discussion at a City Planning Commission meeting. In accordance with the established procedure, I submitted 3 pages of comments before the onset of the meeting. During the meeting my comments were overlooked - the Planning Director claimed they lacked relevance to the agenda item, even though they were directly […]

    April 11, 2016

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    Cases Press Release

    Public Records Lawsuit Seeks Transparency at San José City Hall

    […] records from, non-governmental devices or accounts, such as Liccardo’s personal email account," the lawsuit states, referring to a 2017 California Supreme Court decision against the city. The new lawsuit challenges the city’s response to four public records requests by San José Spotlight or FAC dating back to December 2020. Given evidence of a practice […]

    February 3, 2022

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    FOIA

    Can TSA deny company public information under FOIA?

    I've got something that just smells really fishy and I'm thinking there's something more to it. My company forecasts when places are busy, then shares the results with the public. One vertical where we've had good adoption has been in airports, where we forecast TSA wait times at the top 100 US airports. In fact, […]

    August 11, 2014

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    Brown Act CPRA First Amendment

    Mayor up for reelection wants to stifle public comment on candidates

    […] of anyone who is speaking to a ballot initiative or on a candidate. Recently the mayor discussed the changes she’s proposing in an interview with a local newspaper and mentioned email communication with the city attorney aimed at creating a city policy that disallows speakers on non agenda items from topics of ballot initiative […]

    August 30, 2010

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    CPRA

    CPRA not denied, but never produced by agency

    I have been waiting for a PRA request from the Dept. of Boating and Waterways since November 4, 2010. I made an additional request on December 2nd for one piece of paper that was referred to during the last commission meeting by the lead analyst. At this time I said I would drop all […]

    February 2, 2011