November 14, 2014
How can I stop city from violating Brown Act during budget meetings?
The city is having a budget meeting. The printed budget is over 500 pages and is divided into department sections.…
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October 13, 2014
Taping of public charter school meetings curtailed by corporate owners
I am the parent of a child attending a public charter school. About a year ago when transparency appeared to…
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September 11, 2014
Can someone be arrested for speaking too long at a public meeting?
An activist was arrested at a city council meeting for exceeding the time limit. It’s very loosely enforced by the…
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August 14, 2014
School Superintendent Goals: Public or Private?
Under the Brown Act, does a school board have the obligation to disclose the goals they set for the district…
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August 12, 2014
Redaction of investigative report
An outside attorney is employed to investigate a city council member. The client is the city council. May the attorney…
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July 13, 2014
Urgent meeting scheduled for July 4 seemed to circumvent the public process
Our municipality has filed for bankruptcy. As part of this ongoing nonsense the town officials have been doing what ever they…
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July 10, 2014
City Councilmembers texting each other while deliberating
Can a city council members in CA engage in text message/emailing while deliberating over an appeal brought by an applicant…
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March 13, 2014
Is it a Brown Act violation to move item from closed to open session?
I believe the City Council violated the Brown Act at a recent meeting when councilmembers voted 5-0 to move a…
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March 7, 2014
Minutes of City Council meetings don’t tell whole story
A group of citizens allege the city is wrongly leaving out copies of correspondence the city received related to items…
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February 3, 2014
When should “anticipated litigation” be agendized?
In 2010 our City Council was contacted BY the IRS about a series of Build America Bonds that the City…