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Shame on Inglewood. Using copyright as a muzzle, the city files suit to censor a local critic

BY PETER SCHEER--Inglewood CA doesn’t have much to commend it. To the various reasons not to live there--like high crime rates and bankrupt schools---the city government has added this threat: if you criticize the mayor or other officials, the city will hire lawyers to censor you. That is the clear message to be drawn […]
- Free Expression
May 29, 2015
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CPRA

Administrative hearing transcripts

[…] called the judge and he claimed that they were confidential attorney work product. 1. My reading of the California Code is that a transcript of administrative hearings must be made. 2. As a party to the action, and also because this was an open meeting, that transcript should be available to me. 3. This […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Does newspaper candidate forum constitute a quorum?

[…] question would have come up before, but I don't think it has -- probably because they usually involve less than a quorum of a legislative body. In Government Code section 54952.2(c), the Brown Act Contains a limited number of exceptions in which a quorum may gather without qualifying as a "meeting" that must be […]

October 6, 2009
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Councilman is rude to speakers making public comments. What is our legal recourse?

[…] local city council’s own code of conduct, which are somewhat outside the scope of our expertise at this hotline. We can only answer general questions about open government, open records, and the First Amendment. We note that the Brown Act requires that the public be afforded the right to speak at meetings where the […]
- Public Meetings
September 18, 2020
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Extracting information from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) takes persistence and understanding one’s rights under FOIA

[…] that works closely with the city’s immigrant community, told CFAC, "We often act as a clearing house of information, by making alliances with the community, lawyers, local government and the press." ICE rarely volunteers specific numbers or names of persons detained in raids. In March , following several high-profile raids in San Rafael’s canal […]

June 2, 2009
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CPRA FOIA

Record of state and federal spending

[…] legislature and judiciary to make public all records pertaining to how state and federal tax monies are spent? Would not the California Public Records Act have to comply with Federal Law (i.e. Freedom of Information Act)? If not, could not a suit be brought in federal court seeking an injunction to force the state […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Quorums and valid actions

Our Downtown Business Association is under the Brown Act. At the end of our meetings, members leave before the meeting is finished yet they continue to vote and make crucial decisions. The President says that since there was a quorum at the beginning of meeting, they can make decisions even if the members leave. […]

June 14, 2009
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First Amendment

Can my city require six days notice for a permit to picket or is that prior restraint?

[…] Francisco, 952 F.2d 1059, 1065 (9th Cir. 1991) (quoting Frisby v. Schulz, 108 S. Ct. 2495, 2499 (1988).This means that when public streets are at issue, "the government's authority to restrict speech is at a minimum."Gaudiya, 952 F.2d at 1065. In order to restrict speech in a public forum, the restrictions must be content-neutral […]

October 7, 2011
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CPRA

Access to government officials’ email on personal account

Suppose a public official advises certain persons to communicate with him at home -- either by email or letter -- in order to avoid having to disclose any of those communications as public records under the California Public Records Act? Would those records, in fact, be exempt from the PRA?

June 8, 2009
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Brown Act CPRA

Copies of Tapes for Public Record Requests

Government Code section 54953.5(b) provides that any tape recordings of meetings subject to the Brown Act that are made at the direction of the local agency shall be made publicly available by the local agency pursuant to the Public Records Act, by providing interested members of the public with the tape and a […]

June 14, 2009