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Did the Board chair violate the Brown Act by refusing public comment, holding a closed session?
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SPLC, FAC urge Stanford to call for DA to decline charges against student journalist
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A Guide to 2023 Open Meetings Law Changes
[…] of health authorities can still meet via teleconference if the health authority provides a teleconference number for remote participants. SB 1100 (Cortese) codified at Gov. Code section 54957.95 (new section) Open Meetings: Orderly Conduct Under the Brown Act, all members of the public have a right to attend and participate in all public meetings […]February 16, 2023
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No vote on new superintendent, but of consensus reached in closed session
[…] Act contains a few narrow exceptions to its general requirement that meetings be open to the public. One of these exceptions is found in Government Code § 54957(b), which authorizes public agencies to hold a meeting in closed session "to consider the appointment, employment, evaluation of performance, discipline, or dismissal of a public employee." This […]August 26, 2016
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Board member shared confidential information after closed session
[…] permits an agency to meet in a closed session "to consider the appointment, employment, evaluation of performance, discipline, or dismissal of a public employee." Gov’t Code § 54957(b). The Brown Act prohibits disclosure of "confidential information" obtained at a closed session held pursuant to the Brown Act to "a person not entitled to receive […]September 9, 2016