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  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Reporting closed sessions decisions

    The city council has had an item on its closed session agenda for several weeks regarding a condo's violation of a development agreement. The city manager said publicly that the council had reached a decision that "involves litigation," but he did not discuss the details. No decision was announced after that city council meeting. […]

    June 5, 2010

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    Brown Act

    Does the Brown Act allow closed sessions to appoint legal firm?

    […] a presentation on their firm in open session. After each presentation, the board went into closed session pursuant to GC 54957(b)(1), "Public Employee Appointment: General Counsel." I have never seen this done before. Can a legislative body refer to General Counsel as a "Public Employee" and use this GC as safe harbor for closed session?

    January 31, 2012

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    Brown Act

    Are school district “fact-finding” committee meetings public?

    […] the area, fiscal impact and the impact on academic programs should they close the school. It is my understanding that such a committee is an advisory committee for the district and therefore falls under the Brown Act, however at the last committee meeting the district's public information officer tried to chase me out. The […]

    March 8, 2016

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    CPRA

    Can I be charged $6000 for staff time needed to find and redact requested records?

    My recent request for public records was granted. However, the agency wants to charge me about $6000 to supply the records because of the staff time it will supposedly take to compile them all from the various warehouses in which the paper records are stored. And they want to charge for the time spent reacting the forms. […]

    March 2, 2016

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    Brown Act

    Teacher terminated after closed session

    […] and decided "immediate action" had to be taken. The teacher did not receive 24 hours notice about the meeting but was asked if she wanted to speak for five minutes on her behalf when she happened to walk by the meeting. The board then held a closed session and decided to terminate her. They […]

    October 20, 2011

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    CPRA

    Fees assessed for electronic data

    I’m trying to obtain records for the LA United School District’s spending for 2010 in digital format, but the LA USD Office of the General Counsel is asking for 25 cents per page to send the digital information to us. They’ve explained that this is based on the usual fee rate for pages that […]

    January 12, 2012

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    What penalties have local governments faced for violating the CPRA?

    I'm developing program to teach our office staff how to handle PRAs, and am looking for some examples of local governments, preferably in California, that have been penalized for not abiding by the terms of the law.  Is a lawsuit the only way to remedy it?  Can you share any examples?

    September 16, 2015

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    CPRA

    Request for advisory committee’s documents denied

    […] local planning group (elected advisory body under the City's Dept. of Planning and Land Use). The chair of the committee has sent members an email  explaining that they should each bring the documents they possess for me to read while the meeting is in session, but claiming copies needn't be provided.  What do I do?

    August 3, 2011

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    First Amendment Newsgathering Social Media

    Are there legal actions to protect community newspaper against harassment, threats?

    […] issue out the school staffs' mailboxes before teachers were able to read them. She is now telling folks to steal our newspaper. We are filing criminal charges for the theft. But, what are our rights? She slanders me and my boss saying we are tied to developers and that they hand us money. This […]

    June 11, 2014