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The Brown Act and Charter Schools
June 14, 2009
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Applicability of Brown Act to public charter schools
June 14, 2009
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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
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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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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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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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Access to rezoning information
[…] to discussion or consideration at a public meeting of the body, are disclosable under the and shall be made available upon request without delay." Gov't Code Section 54957.5(a). Therefore, materials distributed at such a meeting should be made available "without delay," upon request, unless one of the PRA's exceptions to disclosure applies. This language […]June 14, 2009
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Access to names of applicants to official positions
[…] 51 Cal. App. 4th1136 (1997), and California First Amendment Coalition v. Superior Court,67 Cal. App. 4th 159 (1998). Both cases involved applications submitted to the Governor for appointment to vacancies on county boards of supervisors. In both cases, the courts of appeal held, for a variety of reasons, that the applications were exempt from […]June 14, 2009
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Internal audit reports and the CPRA
[…] available upon request without delay. However, this section shall not include any writing exempt from public disclosure under Section 6253.5, 6254, 6254.7, or 6254.22." Govt. Code Section 54957.5. Accordingly, the reports should be disclosed unless they were not distributed in connection with a matter subject to discussion or consideration at a public meeting of […]June 14, 2009
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Requests for applications of public positions
[…] App. 4th 1136 (1997) and California First Amendment Coalition v. Superior Court, 67 Cal. App. 4th 159 (1998). Both cases involved applications submitted to the Governor for appointment to vacancies on county boards of supervisors. In both cases, the court of appeal held, for a variety of reasons, that the applications were exempt from […]June 14, 2009