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    Brown Act

    Union representatives in closed labor negotiations

    A closed session may be held, pursuant to section 54957.6 of the Brown Act, to discuss salaries, salary schedules, fringe benefits, and other issues within the scope of negotiations between a local agency and its employees with the local agency's representative.  The purpose of this closed session is only to consult with its own […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Minutes to be Approved Made Public

    […] a public meeting" of the committee must be made available when distributed to all or a majority of all the members of the committee.  Gov't Code section 54957.5(a).  Any other public record distributed during the meeting must be made available at the meeting, if prepared by the committee or a member of the committee, […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Public notice and disclosure of existing litigation

    […] notice to say that, but the real question would be whether the school district has a good faith reason to believe that disclosure of the case name really would jeopardize negotiations. Finally, if the school district settles the case, section 54957.1 requires that it disclose the fact of settlement and the substance of the terms.

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Proposals and Public Records, Limiting Public Comment

    […] body prior to a meeting to educate them on the pending business, these documents are accessible to the public under the California Public Records Act ("PRA").  Section 54957.5 of the Brown Act states that "agendas of public meetings and any other writings, when distributed to all, or a majority of all, of the members […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    City-Funded Committees with Non-Public Official Member

    […] of meeting agendas, and information required to be provided as part of the public report of action taken in closed session, as provided by Government Code section 54957.1.  However, this wouldn't cover your current inquiry for a list of names of members of the open space committee. If you have not already done so, […]

    June 14, 2009

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    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

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    Brown Act

    Personal attacks in public meetings

    The only provision in the Brown Act concerning disorderly conduct is found in section 54957.9.  This section permits a legislative body to exclude all persons who willfully cause a disruption of a meeting so that it cannot be conducted in an orderly fashion.  Although this provision is typically applied in open meetings to exclude […]

    June 14, 2009