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  • Asked and Answered

    Bagley-Keene Act Brown Act

    Closed Session on Employee Performance

    […] Board on whether or not to renew contracts for the Deputy Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent. How can the public know that this item refers to these positions when they are not named. Is the public being adequately noticed so that the Public Comment provided before the Closed Session can actually have meaning to the community?

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Charter board meetings flout Brown Act rules

    Can Charter Boards hold special meetings, with limited notice on just any subject? Can they go into closed session and report out publicly that no action was taken, then order the CEO to do what was decided in the closed session? Can a vote be taken to approve signature of a disclosure filing that […]

    June 8, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act CPRA Newsgathering

    Accessing document constituting an agenda and agency audits

    […] newspaper. I have two questions that relate to two different government bodies: 1) A charter high school, which is covered by the Brown Act, posts its Board's agenda 72 hours online before meetings. However, it never posts the documents constituting the agenda (e.g. text of resolutions to be voted on or discussed). At the […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act CPRA First Amendment

    Parent’s email complaint entered as a public comment by school site council

    […] another person or employee," the employee must be given the opportunity to "have the complaints or charges heard in an open session rather than a closed session, which notice shall be delivered to the employee personally or by mail at least 24 hours before the time for holding the session.  If notice is not given, […]

    May 3, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Regularly Scheduled Special Meetings

    Can a regularly scheduled meeting be called a "Special Meeting" Can a Closed Session be called a Special Meeting if the "reporting out" is part of the immediately following regular meeting?

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Could this act of intimidation be a Brown Act violation?

    […] will be off the record, in the parking lot." This smacks of intimidation. The item they were discussing was also brought up in a closed session without being noticed on the agenda prior to this meeting. Another issue at this meeting concerned three of the board members discussing who would make a motion and who […]

    June 10, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Defining “action taken” and sufficiently describing agenda items

    […] at community colleges. Our student government, which distributes about $1.3 million per year in student fees, seems to consistently violate the Brown Act, particularly with respect to notice of its intended actions. Specifically, while our student government timely posts meeting agendas, the entries are so vague they fail entirely to describe the possible actions […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Documents from Closed Session Real Property Negotiations

    […] were given in closed session/. How can the public know what the trustees based their decisions on if all of it is behind closed doors? Also, what can be discussed in closed session regarding real property? Can the board deliberate behind closed doors, then bring the motion out in open session for discussion as well?

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    How Do I Address Agency’s Failure to Honor Brown Act Meeting Notification Deadlines?

    The airport commission in our municipality has only given 25 hours notice of the time and location change for their next meeting. This commission is notorious for posting meeting agendas at the last minute and scheduling meetings that are not convenient for residents to attend. Is the airport commission in violation of the Brown […]

    September 26, 2021