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  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    The public should know if school employee embezzled $2m

    […] because of the embezzling.  If so, you should have an argument, under the Bakersfield reasoning, that the charges of embezzling were well-founded and even resulted in a dismissal. If you have not already done so, I would suggest that you submit a PRA request for the records you seek. The PRA requires agencies to […]

    October 6, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Secret ballots violate Brown Act

    I attended a City Council Meeting today where the Council appointed members to an advisory board. The appointments were done in open session, but by secret ballot. After announcing the matter, taking questions and comments, the city council sat at the dias w/microphones off, each wrote their choices for the board on a piece […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Secret Ballots

    […] session at the public meeting during which the closed session was held, and must report the vote or abstention of every member present.  See Gov. Code § 54957.1. Assuming the closed session was in violation violated of the Brown Act, a member of the public may seek to void the action taken.  You must […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA School Records

    School District agenda packets

    […] a majority of the members of a public body must be provided to the public (unless exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Act). (Government Code section 54957.5, reproduced below.)  Agenda packets consist of the documents distributed to the public body, so they must be provided to the public upon request, except to the […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Blog

    In their handling of controversy surrounding Chemerinsky and Summers, UC’s leaders showed themselves unable or unwilling to defend academic freedom

    […] Erwin Chemerinsky, a liberal, as the dean of its new law school. Chancellor Michael Drake, rather than resisting pressure from conservative quarters to politicize a key academic appointment, fired Chemerinsky last week. (Later, apparently realizing that his action would do grave harm to the fledgling law school, Drake went hat-in-hand to Chemerinsky and publicly […]

    June 3, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Reporting closed sessions decisions

    […] action, defendants, and other particulars must be disclosed to any person upon inquiry, unless doing so would jeopardize service of process or existing settlement negotiations.Gov't Code section 54957.1(a)(2).Since the city council has reached a decision that "involves litigation," you should be informed exactly what the city council decided (to file suit, to intervene, etc.), […]

    June 5, 2010