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Instead of delays at all airports, let’s sequester Congress and shut down the airports serving D.C.

[…] capital: Reagan National, Dulles and Baltimore-Washington International. This will achieve the same cost savings while trapping members of Congress in Washington until they do what they were elected to do: make the strategic, if difficult, choices on spending and taxes necessary to bend the curve of the U.S. deficit. Why should the whole country […]

March 6, 2013
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CPRA

Can I request public staff time cards?

My community has a special water district.There is a manager and a five-person elected board.Would the manager's time-card be public information? Also, the board has not approved the minutes for months.Is there a time limit to approve minutes from meetings?

September 26, 2011
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Temecula Residents Sue School Board and its President for First Amendment and Brown Act Violations

[…] the First Amendment, such as calling a board member a "homophobe" for objecting to a curriculum that mentioned Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, and who was assassinated while in office. Komrosky has demonstrated a consistent pattern of violating the First Amendment and the Ralph […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Meetings
December 22, 2023
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In settlement with FAC, LA County Jail releases inmate visitor log, agrees to relax secrecy rule

[…] raise funds for his bail, which was set at $1 million. Noguez also continues to hold the position of County Assessor, a job to which he was elected (and from which he cannot be removed unless convicted of a crime). Moreover, he continues to draw his Assessor’s $200,000 salary. As part of the settlement […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
December 5, 2013
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Brown Act

Did email exchange between committee members violate Brown Act?

Last month our recently elected academic senate president announced to us, the Senate Executive Committee, privately, on campus, that he would be moving to New York and would not be teaching anymore at our college. He said we would have a meeting about his leaving as soon as he learned about what sick time […]

March 16, 2015
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Brown Act

Future Council Members, Participation, and the Brown Act

Section 54952.1 of the Brown Act provides that "ny person elected to serve as a member of a legislative body who has not yet assumed the duties of office shall conform his or her conduct to the requirements of this chapter and shall be treated for purposes of enforcement of this chapter as if […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act CPRA

City Council editing public meeting videos

[…] seem to violate both the spirit and possibly the letter of the PRA and/or the Brown Act. You may consider bringing this to the attention of your elected officials and/or the district attorney. If you are concerned that the wrong version of the public meeting recording was uploaded onto the website, you might consider […]

July 30, 2015
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How to sabotage California’s Public Records Act

[…] the news organizations, nonprofits, community activists and all others who, through their requests for information under the California Public Records Act (PRA), try to learn what their elected officials are doing (or not doing) and to hold them accountable. The First Amendment Coalition has joined these cases, filing amicus briefs in support of the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
October 15, 2012
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First Amendment

Can I be kicked off advisory committee for blogging about politics?

[…] these prototypical plaintiffs. Through the ordinary functioning of the democratic process, he was removed from a titular position on a school board by the very people who elected him to the position in the first place." Id. Second, the court found that "more is fair in electoral politics than in other contexts." Id. Because […]

March 5, 2012
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First Amendment

City Denies Critics Access To Information?

[…] concerned about the Dallas Morning News article from May 19, 2010: "JUDGE ORDERS CITY CRITIC TO AVOID OFFICIALS." Did the ruling affect any person requesting records? Because elected officials are the stewards of our tax money, I feel their actions should be available to the public. This situation truly concerns me and I would […]

May 29, 2010