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Santa Clarita: Community alleges open meeting violation in vote on public library

A group of library workers and patrons in Santa Clarita has demanded that the City Council rescind its vote on withdrawing from the Los Angeles County Library System and allow public discussions of the withdrawal. -db The Santa Clarita Valley Signal September 28, 2010 By Natalie Everett Library patrons and workers sent the city of Santa Clarita a letter Tuesday demanding that the City Council take back its vote on withdrawing from the Los Angeles

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Orange County: Judge rules no evidence of open meeting violations in high school boundaries case

Parents in the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District lost a suit alleging that the district had violated the Brown Act, California’s open meeting law, in setting boundaries for a new high school. -db Orange County Register September 22, 2010 By Jessica Terrell YORBA LINDA – Frustrated parents suing the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District failed to provide sufficient evidence that the district violated any laws in the setting of Yorba Linda High School’s boundaries in

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Stockton: Grand Jury finds three college board trustees in violation of California’s open meetings law

The County Grand Jury has recommended that three members of the San Joaquin Delta College Board of Trustees be censured for violating the Brown Act,the state’s open meetings law. -db The Record June 29, 2010 By Jennifer Torres STOCKTON — Three members of the San Joaquin Delta College Board of Trustees should be censured for violating the state’s open-meetings law, the county grand jury recommended in a report released Monday. The trustees — identified in

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Grassroots effort to pass law to close loophole in Oregon’s Public Meetings Law

A Democratic Party leader from Astoria, Oregon contends that county commissioners convened serial private meetings conducted in pairs to avoid the three-person quorum, undermining the state’s open meetings law. -db The Daily Astorian Letter to Editor May 7, 2010 By Larry Taylor Clatsop County Democrats voted to seek passage of legislation in Oregon to end the circumvention of the state’s Public Meetings Law. The public’s tolerance for this practice has ended. Clatsop County Commissioners have

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Crescent City: Town government bodies may be stretching open meeting laws

A reporter for the Daily Triplicate writes that while “two-by-two” meetings held by the City Council and Harbor Commission are legal since they do not constitute a quorum, the practice may not realize the greatest potential for open government. -db The Daily Triplicate Commentary February 01, 2010 By Kurt Madar Non-public events are being used by our public officials. Del Norte County is a patchwork of governing jurisdictions, and one of the the ways they

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