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    Brown Act CPRA

    Water agency contractors’ calculations “trade secret”?

    […] but has not responded for a request to review the consulting contract itself. This isn’t academic: the agency asserts that the consultants’ excel spreadsheet originals containing the actual cell-by-cell math calculations are proprietary to the consultant and the water agency itself isn’t privy to the calculations. Here’s the dilemma: first, this means that the […]

    January 16, 2012

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    CPRA

    Documents relating to employment

    Access to the records of local government agencies in California is governed by the California Public Records Act, Government Code sections 6250 et seq.Unless the agency involved is a federal agency, the federal Freedom of Information Act does not apply.There is no express exemption from disclosure for a record constituting a communication regarding the […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    City avoiding disclosure of personal email

    […] public officials using private email accounts and mobile phones to conduct the public's business seems to be becoming a pervasive problem. It would seem that if a government official uses a personal email account to send messages relating to the conduct of the public's business, a strong argument could be made that those messages […]

    January 13, 2012

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    Brown Act

    Board of Directors Closed Session

    […] closed session, I was told that the Board of Directors were considered personnel and as so covered under the personnel matters exception in the Davis-Sterling Open Meeting Act. I read a pamphlet from the California Attorney General's office that was very clear that board members are not considered personnel under the Bagley-Keene Act. Does […]

    June 14, 2009

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    First Amendment

    What are the free speech rights of public employees?

    […] employment at the school. While we cannot provide specific advice through this service, I can give you an overview of the First Amendment and its application to government employees. As a threshold matter, it is important to note that "public employees do not surrender all their First Amendment rights by reason of their employment." […]

    May 8, 2019

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    Brown Act

    Model Letters

    I was wondering if, under "Model Letters" on the website, CFAC can provide a model letter in regards to a general Ralph M. Brown Act request of an agenda/agenda packet to an organization? I believe this would be helpful as it will communicate clearly to the receiver that they are legally mandated to do […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    CPRA Request being stonewalled by their attorney

    […] acknowledge their attorney as a legal party under the CPRA (there is no mention of attorneys as valid parties under the Act). We have stated that they must respond directly to us but so far they are ignoring us. We are not in litigation with them… we are only exercising our right under the […]

    June 12, 2013

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    CPRA

    Councilman asks intern on date via city issued cell

    […] record relate to the "conduct of the public's business" is broadly construed, and "is intended to cover every conceivable kind of record that is involved in the governmental process. ... Only purely personal information unrelated to 'the conduct of the public's business' could be considered exempt from this definition, i.e., the shopping list phoned […]

    November 21, 2009

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    No more slaps on the wrist: Public Spankings for violators of open-government laws

    […] spanking of children. While few legislators seem to want to follow the San Jose Democrat off this particular cliff, Lieber’s idea does suggest another possible connection between government and spanking. A source of great frustration to advocates of government openness and accountability is the absence of any meaningful enforcement of California’s open government laws. […]

    June 2, 2009