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January 17, 2025
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One judge’s brilliant (and hilarious) rejoinder to lawyers trying to cut off public access to court documents
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August 25, 2015
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June 12, 2024
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Brown Act

Is public college “executive board” subject to Brown Act?

[…] However, some members of the Executive Board feel that the board should not have to follow certain rules of the Brown Act (posting agendas 72 hours in advance, rules about closed sessions) because they say they don’t make policies, are not an "advisory board" and they don’t vote on issues. Our thoughts are that […]

May 22, 2013
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Brown Act

A Group of City Council Staffers Can Constitute a Serial Meeting, too

July 13, 2010
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Brown Act CPRA

Board Conducting Public’s Business Via Private Emails

[…] bodies of a local agency, "whether permanent or temporary, decision-making or advisory, created by charter, ordinance, resolution, or formal action of a legislative body." Gov't Code § 54952(b). The golf course authority would likely be covered by the Act if its "parent" legislative body -- i.e., the city council -- created it. The fact that […]

June 24, 2010
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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

Blogger’s identity exposed, and legal threats made against her

I am writing today for guidance regarding my rights as a blogger. I am the author of a cosmetics complaints blog and creator and one of the admins of the complaints Facebook Page. The blog and page initially were started in an effort to obtain a refund from a cosmetics company due to sanitation […]

November 21, 2011
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Brown Act CPRA

Access to City Manager’s compensation denied

[…] as billing statements from the district's outside counsel, and second, potential violations of the Brown Act in connection with emailed communications between three of the directors.I will address each of these issues in turn. As I'm sure you know, under the Public Records Act, public records -- which include "any writing containing information relating […]

July 28, 2011