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Our municipality has filed for bankruptcy. As part of this ongoing nonsense the town officials have been doing what ever they…
Can a city council members in CA engage in text message/emailing while deliberating over an appeal brought by an applicant…
I’m a journalist at a state university where our student cafeteria came under fire from the administration over a party they’d…
I recently submitted a Public Records Act request in my city. I have just been told that I will be…
How do I go about requesting from the Police Dept. footage taken with a hidden camera worn by one of their officers?…
I volunteer to help run a small community newspaper. Before we went to print on our first issue, we started receiving bashings…
I’m a journalist at a radio station doing a story about people who are soliciting money pledges for various causes on…
If a group of scientists is doing research at a state university, but the research is funded entirely by the…
I believe the City Council violated the Brown Act at a recent meeting when councilmembers voted 5-0 to move a…
My local Neighborhood Council put forth a motion in the Urban Design and Preservation Committee to ban short term rentals.…