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    Brown Act First Amendment

    New rule places unreasonable time restraints on public comments

    […] forced to comment on an already approved item. This is not right. Reasonable limitations are easy to imagine, and I suppose if up to three minutes on agenda’d items plus two minutes on Public Comment were combined for five minutes, it could be workable some of the time. But the comments need to be […]

    March 5, 2012

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    Brown Act

    School Board Voted In Secret to Pick New Superintendent

    […] of teachers, parents, and community activists protested against the secret meeting that the city school board to pick the new yet controversial superintendent. We believe that the closed and secret meeting violated several provisions of the Brown Act and we would like help in understanding how the Brown Act applies and in finding an […]

    December 10, 2018

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    Brown Act

    Religious institutions and the Brown Act

    […] Brown Act applies to Churches/Temples that are non profit or charitable institutions? Can the President of a board of directors have meetings with a few members of the board without taking minutes and without the full executive committee brought in to the "dinner" or meeting prior to a scheduled but closed meeting of the board?

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    City-Funded Committees with Non-Public Official Member

    […] pass an open space initiative. The Brown Act governs the public's right to oversee the activities of legislative bodies by mandating certain requirements for agendas, open meetings, notice of meetings, opportunities for the public to address the body, and the like.  As a general rule, however, it does not require the legislative body -- […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Governing Boards with Public Funds

    I would like to know if governing Boards for co-ops that use public funds fall into the jurisdiction of the Brown Act or the Bagley-Keen open meeting act?  If so how the Brown Act applies to these governing bodies?

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Public notice and disclosure of existing litigation

    Our school district has a closed agenda item with the following sentence. Is this allowed?A) EXISTING LITIGATION(Subdivision (a) of Section 54956.9)Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(a) the Board will confer with legal counsel concerning existing litigation; disclosure of the case name might jeopardize current settlement negotiations.How can the public comment on a case without […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Agenda item questions

    […] in your second question, it would appear that "other administrative items, including delegation of tasks" may not have adequately described such item, and thus, it was inadequate notice. Similarly, if an item is labeled for "discussion" and the item was then voted upon, such item was likely not adequate notice to the public because […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    When should “anticipated litigation” be agendized?

    […] to take the money back which would likely have bankrupted the City. This was made public two years later in April 2012. During that time, the only notice on the City Council Agenda was "Significant Exposure to Litigation Pursuant to California Government Code Section 54956.9B) (1 Anticipated Case)" which reoccurred from time to time. Since […]

    February 3, 2014

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    Brown Act

    City Council Action in Secret

    Our city’s fire chief is on medical leave.  I heard the city council approved a search for an interim fire chief several weeks ago, but it was not disclosed to our paper. Is it legal for the city council to approve a search without notifying the public?

    June 14, 2009