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Last month our recently elected academic senate president announced to us, the Senate Executive Committee, privately, on campus, that he…
Our Unified School District is always walking a very fine line when it comes to the Brown Act.
At the last…
Recently I learned our City Manager approved the implementation of a significant change to a public fee-paid service without presenting…
It seems like neither the Brown Act nor Bagley-Keene applies to the CA legislature. What law governs the process through…
Several months ago the city council majority changed the public comments procedure to make it more difficult for all that…
The city is having a budget meeting. The printed budget is over 500 pages and is divided into department sections.…
I am the parent of a child attending a public charter school. About a year ago when transparency appeared to…
An activist was arrested at a city council meeting for exceeding the time limit. It’s very loosely enforced by the…
Under the Brown Act, does a school board have the obligation to disclose the goals they set for the district…
An outside attorney is employed to investigate a city council member. The client is the city council. May the attorney…