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Brown Act First Amendment

Do we have a right to show video of pro tem judge making mockery of a serious safety matter?

[…] meeting despite a per-speaker time limit by having several different individuals use their comment time to play portions of the video. Although we cannot provide specific legal advice through this service, I can give you some general guidance on both these issues that will hopefully be useful. On the first issue, the general rule […]

March 26, 2012
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Brown Act First Amendment

Can the city manager demand political cartoons removed from senior center?

[…] senior center to determine whether the city manager is overstepping his bounds. Holme Roberts & Owen LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation.

November 18, 2011
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Brown Act

Does Brown Act allow School District, City to negotiate millions in fees in closed session?

[…] Brown Act (and that the Board should not do it again). A third option would be to report the violations to your local district attorney, who also has standing to judicially enforce the Brown Act. Unfortunately, whether the D.A. decides to enforce the Act is in the sole discretion of the D.A., but alerting the […]

November 25, 2015
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CPRA Police Records

Police deny request for 911 tape

My CPRA request to review the 911 recording/transcript of a 2003 death was denied by the LAPD. While the cause of death was determined to be a knife wound the coroner declined to rule on whether the incident was a suicide or homicide. Prior to my formal request, the police refused to discuss the case […]

December 30, 2011
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Brown Act

Does the CA legislature have an open meeting law?

[…] applies to the CA legislature. What law governs the process through which the CA legislature, including committees, considers laws and informs the public of opportunity to comment at hearings. And are there laws that prevent a committee for adding a last-minute amendment (without notice) to a bill that has little connection to the original bill?

December 17, 2014
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CPRA

Same fees assessed for electronic data as photocopies

[…] other words, the agency is permitted to charge for staff time spent in performing the copying, but not the searching for or retrieval of the records. In addition, if the agency gives you the records on a CD or some other tangible recording device, it is permitted to pass on the actual cost of […]

March 23, 2012
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CPRA

Fees assessed for electronic data

[…] records is that "[t]he cost of duplication shall be limited to the direct cost of producing a copy of a record in an electronic format." Id. (emphasis added). In other words, the agency is permitted to charge for staff time spent in performing the copying, but not the searching for or retrieval of the […]

January 12, 2012
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First Amendment

Arrested for using “colorful” language at city council meeting

[…] use any word while (well within time/place/and manner restrictions to talk) you are speaking your peace up at the podium. I'm doing everything I can, but need all the help I can for standing up for this right both on the criminal and civil side of this issue in court re the cases I have.

December 31, 2010
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CPRA School Records

What’s meant by “electronic form” documents under the CPRA?

[…] copy of the CA Jobs Bill Fund Report from my local school district. I received an oversimplified copy of the report so I asked for the website address for the complete report. I was told the website was password protected and therefore I was not granted access. Would a document with restricted access be […]

August 5, 2011
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Brown Act Newsgathering

Inadequate notification of Special District meetings

[…] has its regular meeting on the second Tuesday of each month. For quite a while the agenda was emailed to all board members and to me (upon standing automatically renewed request) on the preceding Friday. Recently the District started posting the agenda and sending the mail on Saturday. I have objected that the notice […]

June 14, 2009