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Brown Act CPRA

Planning Commissions, Confidential Complaints, and the CPRA

At a Planning Commission in our city an applicant applied for a variance regarding the height of a fence as a result of a complaint. Prior to the hearing a Planning Commissioner revealed that she was the complainant and was stepping down from the hearing. Another Planning Commissioner evidently found out who had made […]

June 14, 2009
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May 30, 2024
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Brown Act

Closed Sessions, Settlements, and Lack of Discussion/Public Comment

[…] because deciding to take those actions would normally be subject to the Brown Act's open meeting requirements. The court said that whatever else Section 54956.9 permits, "the exemption cannot be construed to empower a city council to agree to take, as part of a non-publicly ratified litigation settlement, action that by substantive law may […]

June 14, 2009
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Foreign media at Olympics urged to press home governments to demand China lift internet censorship

[…] urged news organizations to demand that their own governments, as participants in the Olympics, pressure China to end internet censorship. "US and other foreign media in China for the Olympics should not quietly go along with official policies that forbid free speech and the exchange of information," said Peter Scheer, the Coalition's executive director. […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Cases

Apple v Samsung appeals court signals interest in transparency issue

[…] transparency in patent infringement litigation. The case is an appeal from the massive Apple v. Samsung suit. Both parties have appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to void rulings by the trial judge that order the companies to unseal--that is, make public--financial and other records that they filed with […]
- Public Records
March 15, 2013
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First Amendment Press Rights

FAC Calls on Governor to Sign Bill Strengthening Press Protections at Protests

[…] SB 16 would expand on 2019's landmark police transparency law, SB 1421, which made certain categories of police personnel records accessible under the California Public Records Act for the first time in decades. Unfortunately, law enforcement agencies and labor unions took advantage of ambiguities in SB 1421 to stifle access to critical information. SB […]
September 30, 2021
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CPRA

Written correspondence to and from officials as public record

[…] policy requiring council members to make public all written correspondence including email rec'd from private citizens regardless of its content, citing the Brown Act and the desire for a more "transparent" city gov't. A number of citizens believe that this is a violation of their 1st Amend & privacy rights and is just an […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA FOIA

Information on Minors, Public Schools, and the California Public Records Act

I would like to know if information on children attending public schools is available under the Federal Open Records Act. I am looking to get mailing address for parents sending their children to public schools. If this information is available, would I be able to get the information from the school district office or […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

Council-elect make decisions, but claim documents are not public

[…] celebration) serve on this committee. My questions: is this committee considered private? Am I entitled to the financial records of this committee? I have requested the budget for the event, how much has been raised in donations and the names of the major donors but have been denied. A couple of additional facts: no […]

October 21, 2010
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Europe’s High Court Has No Business Telling Google How to Edit Its Search Results

[…] decision of Europe's highest court ordering Google to delete, on request, search results embarrassing to private individuals, is a watershed -- and not a good one -- for the Internet and for freedom of speech. Not that I'm unsympathetic to the college senior whose high school bust for marijuana possession is the first thing […]

May 14, 2014