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  • Handbooks

    California Brown Act Primer

    […] body, a collective commitment or promise by a majority of the members of a legislative body to make a positive or a negative decision, or an actual vote by a majority of the members of a legislative body when sitting as a body or entity, upon a motion, proposal, resolution, order or ordinance." Gov. […]

    September 8, 2024

  • Pages

    Explainers

    […] avoid embarrassment over mistakes, incompetence, or wrongdoing. After all, to some extent any request for disclosure of public records will place a burden on government. Both the voters and their elected officials have established the general policy that this burden is well worth bearing in order to keep democracy vital. If the catchall provision […]

    July 3, 2024

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    No Video Record of Show-of-Hands Votes

    […] planning board has conducted its meetings without recording them thereby denying basic access to the public. On July 5 with at least 200 in attendance, the Board voted 9-5-1 to send a proposal forward. People in front requested a roll call vote but the Chair asked for a quick vote by hand. As of […]

    February 23, 2018

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Serial Meetings

    […] second option, an interview process, to fill the vacancy. Immediately after the election many people began talking to me about filling the seat with the third highest vote getter. …  It became clearly evident to me that there was a preponderance of will in this community to do just that. I had the opportunity […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Brown Act Compliance for Faculty Members Digitally Attending Academic Senate Meetings

    […] agenda can be access at all times, 72 hours or more in advance. We use roll call to identify all attendees, and roll call to identify all votes, though for approval of minutes and other non-controversial business we ask first if there is an objection, if we hear none, we state such and move […]

    May 15, 2018

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Closed meeting votes and the Brown Act

    Under the Brown Act, can a sitting city council conduct a secret vote (no public notification) whether to consider a legally filed candidate for a city commission appointment, and then, refuse to make public how each council member voted or how the tally went when they do appoint candidates to a commission?

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act CPRA

    Quorums and the CPRA

    […] Child Abuse Prevention Commission.  This group is subject to the Brown Act.  If our bylaws allowed it, could we legally allow members to submit a written proxy vote on specific agenda items when the member cannot be present?  We are envisioning this as a rare occurrence, and that the written vote be signed by […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Does Brown Act allow public meeting recordings to be destroyed?

    […] copy; can I request to listen to the recording; can I during this time record it on my own device? What can we do about a board vote that took place after a discussion on a subject that was not in the board’s power to decide? A 3-4 decision came after an argument over […]

    March 25, 2013