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Costs soar for City Council meeting DVDs
September 5, 2011
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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
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Does the Brown Act require minutes from city council meetings?
[…] a legislative body may require another legislative body over which it has appointed a majority of the members to keep a minute book. See Govt. Code section 54957.2(a), (b). That being said, the city council's own bylaws will typically address whether minutes must be taken. Bryan Cave LLP is general counsel for the First […]June 5, 2013
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State Agency I worked for is denying my records’ request, but documents do exist!
September 13, 2013
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Charter schools and the CPRA
July 26, 2013
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Applicability of Brown Act to public charter schools
June 14, 2009
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Can teacher lose job if student-survey questions school board policy?
[…] the operation of the schools should be spent. Accordingly, it is essential that they be able to speak out freely on such questions without fear of retaliatory dismissal." Id. at 571-72. The Court also noted that it had, in past cases, indicated that First Amendment protection was also appropriate where "statements are directed at […]June 5, 2010
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Can A School District Bar The Public From School Closure Meetings?
April 21, 2022
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How Trump’s War on Free Speech Threatens the Republic
[…] where it hurts (the wallet) and subjecting them to legal harassment. This is especially so in the 22 states that lack anti-SLAPP statutes—laws that facilitate the rapid dismissal of libel claims without merit. The VanderSloot lawsuit is instructive. Although a court in Idaho ultimately threw out all the billionaire’s claims against Mother Jones, the […]June 6, 2017
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If the federal FOIA shared the limitations of California’s public records law, large parts of American history would be blank.
October 14, 2014