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    Brown Act

    Closed door meetings benefitted labor union at cost of public tidelands

    After holding closed door negotiations with a public coalition that included the local union, the Port of San Diego announced  a hotel development deal that included a Project Labor Agreement with the union.  The development will be build on public tidelands, which sacrifices the Port Master Plan-designated parkland.  Were the extensive secret labor negotiations legal?

    November 15, 2011

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    Brown Act

    Council took action on a for-discussion-only agenda item

    […] discussion item stated that "No action was called for." The "summary recommendation" was  that the city council "receive and file this report. "  However, without any public notice, the City Council took action.  I know the Brown Act requires items on which Council acts to be on the agenda in advance, unless there is […]

    December 6, 2010

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    Brown Act CPRA School Records

    Parents not invited to meeting that resulted in removing their autistic student from public school

    […] meeting. We made a public records request to obtain information, minutes, agenda, etc. from this meeting--nothing. Two weeks following this meeting we received a letter of prior notice denying all options of a public education--moving my son from 100% general education to 100% non-public school--no continuum of Least Restricted Educational (LRE) placement offered. A […]

    May 16, 2012

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    Brown Act

    Decision Reached By County Supervisors Without A Public Meeting

    The Brown Act governs notices, agendas and meetings of legislative bodies, such as a Board of Supervisors.  The Act defines the term "meeting" and also defines specific conduct that does not constitute a "meeting" under the Act.  A "meeting" includes any congregation of a majority of the members of the legislative body at the […]

    February 21, 2018

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Closed Sessions and Permissible Topics

    My local city council has apparently held closed session meetings on whether or not they will repair a landslide on a city street. The agenda notification listed only pending litigation, but did not list the specific subject. These meetings resulted in public policy decisions. I have made a CPRA request for public records relating […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Police won’t provide me access to my interrogation reports

    My landlord has called Police Department many times to harass me. I've called and written to the PD for copies of the field interrogations but they refuse to release them to me because I'm the person complained about.  I would like to know what is contained in the complaints.  And is there a legal […]

    June 18, 2015

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    Brown Act

    Is public college “executive board” subject to Brown Act?

    […] that the Executive Board is covered by the Brown Act because they meet regularly, provide advisory input and suggestions to the academic senate president who sets the agenda for the academic senate, and are discussing topics extremely relevant to public interest. The Executive Board also contains all the key officers from the academic senate. […]

    May 22, 2013

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    Brown Act

    No vote on new superintendent, but of consensus reached in closed session

    The School Board announced last night that they had narrowed the field of candidates for superintendent to one finalist when reporting out of closed session. But no vote was taken. The board president emailed me today that they had reached consensus. How can they do that without a vote being taken? Is that legal?

    August 26, 2016

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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