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    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

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    Brown Act

    City Clerk requires Ad Hoc reports to be in announcements

    Why would our city clerk require city Commissions to move all ad hoc reports and standing committees from agenda items to the announcements portion of the meeting? They are not listed on the agenda unless the ad hoc specifies the exact language of the action/recommendation for our city council. Then it gets more complicated […]

    October 6, 2009

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    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

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    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

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    Brown Act

    Can Police Chief sit on dais at a Police Commission meeting

    […] Police Commission has the unfortunate practice of allowing the Chief of Police to sit on the dais with them when they meet. What I'm wondering is, is it legal for him to remain empaneled with them when they go into "closed session" (i.e. secret meeting where members of the public are told to leave the room)?

    January 12, 2016

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    Brown Act

    Access to agenda attachments

    Does a government body subject to the Brown Act also have to provide access to the attachments to agenda items 48 hours before the meeting?  If so, do they have to also provide copies of the attachments upon request if the person pays the copying fee? I am referring to attachments that make up […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Minutes of City Council meetings don’t tell whole story

    A group of citizens allege the city is wrongly leaving out copies of correspondence the city received related to items on its agenda and powerpoint presentations related to agenda items. The council offers a limited number of copies of this information at the city clerk’s desk on the night of the meeting but it […]

    March 7, 2014

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Can I access emailed public comments that are not read at meetings or summarized in the minutes?

    […] announces that the comments have been forwarded to the other board members. The contents of the received comments are not read out or summarized at the hearing for the information of the public attending, despite requests for this information. While oral comments submitted at the meeting are summarized in the meeting minutes, the emailed […]

    April 24, 2025

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    Brown Act

    Public comments on water rates closed, item still on agenda

    The current City Council Agenda contains the following item: "DISCUSSION AND POTENTIAL ACTION ITEMS. Introduce and Waive the First Reading of One of the Three Ordinances Relating to Establishing Rates for Water Service Fees." Here is the problem. We are not being allowed to comment about this item at all, even though it has […]

    November 25, 2009