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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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    First Amendment Social Media

    Former Employer Blocked My Twitter Account Stopping Me From Accessing COVID-19 Info

    […] I did not send them any messages nor did I Tweet anything about them. My question: can I file a lawsuit or complaint and possibly receive damages for them violating my First Amendment right of receiving free speech and notices from a government organization, and -- because of the block -- possibly blocking my […]

    August 7, 2020

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Individual accessing results on their own background check

    […] review your application materials (if you kept a copy of them) to verify whether a waiver was made.In addition, in your next communication with the law enforcement agencies you might also want to ask them for the legal authority on which they base their denial.That might enable you to evaluate whether the denial is lawful.

    June 14, 2009

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    Blog Cases

    Victory: California Appeal Court Orders Records Unsealed

    […] make the required statutory findings, but because less restrictive means exist to protect respondent’s private medical information and the identity of third parties," Justice Victoria Chavez wrote for the panel. As part of FAC's long-standing commitment to enforcing the public's right to know, it teamed up with EFF and First Amendment scholar Eugene Volokh […]

    April 15, 2020

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    City avoiding disclosure of personal email

    […] press to have received email regarding a particular issue. Our PRA requesting those email have been rejected by the city because they do not have email accounts for council members. However on the city website the link to contact council members is the council member’s personal email account. If the city is listing the […]

    January 13, 2012

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Planning a Closed Session to Allow Confidential Documents

    For a lawsuit between two city board members and the city board, which is run as a corporation, the parties have reached an agreement to allow the board members to access documents in closed session so that it will be covered under the Brown Act. Can a government entity plan a session to […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Blog

    New 1st amendment case poses existential threat to public employee unions

    […] unions comes from . . . the First Amendment. In a scarcely-noticed lawsuit filed Monday in federal district court in Los Angeles, a conservative nonprofit, the Center for Individual Rights, claims that California’s system for collecting union dues from government employees abridges free speech safeguards by compelling employees to subsidize union political advocacy and […]

    May 2, 2013

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    Stripped of First Amendment Rights By City Council

    I went to a city council meeting and a woman was being proposed for city office. I condemned her appointment, saying Martin Luther King Jr. would not have approved. I also condemned the homosexuals in the room. Christianity is often condemned by others with no results, but this time, the Mayor interrupted me and […]

    December 4, 2018