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    Brown Act First Amendment

    Taping of public charter school meetings curtailed by corporate owners

    I am  the parent of a child attending a public charter school. About a year ago when transparency appeared to be an issue, parents started to videotape school board meetings.  Currently two parents videotape the  board meetings using handheld cameras. No disturbance is made. Tapes are not edited and are posted on a Facebook page that is open […]

    October 13, 2014

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    District Hospitals and Closed Sessions

    […] CEO and COO are being paid by the management company not by the Hospital or District. The CEO and COO are also the president and vice president of the management company. The District is about to have a closed session to evaluate the CEO and COO as public employees. Are they public employees or […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Court Employee Anonymity

    The courts here operate with anonymity as to the identities of the employees therein, which appears to be an illegal circumstance.  Employees of the courts will sometimes inform the public their first names, and only the initials of their last names, but otherwise such simple information is treated as a secret.  Nobody has a […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Does A Closed Session Employment Termination Decision Violate the Brown Act?

    After four years of service as the Library Director of the City's Public Library, I found out yesterday that I am to be terminated from this position. The decision took place during a special meeting of the Library Board. I was at the meeting, but not invited to attend the closed session. The meeting […]

    November 12, 2018

  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment

    Can a public college bar employees speaking to the press?

     My community college district has an unwritten policy that bars publicly employed campus safety officers from speaking to members of the press. On several occasions they have told me of the policy and referred routine questions to supervisors. When I questioned supervisors about the policy, including media relations and the college president, they denied any […]

    September 17, 2015

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    CPRA FOIA

    Construction inspectors’ addresses omitted from CPRA response

    I can’t get addresses of crane construction inspectors.  Cal OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) responded to my CPRA request with a partial list of crane inspectors, with their addresses. I demanded the rest of the list and they gave me an alleged complete list without the requested addresses. They said the addresses were exempt as personal […]

    July 18, 2013

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Can a school board restrict critical speech about district employees?

    […] with Baca v. Moreno Valley USD where the school board there tried to stifle free speech in a similar way and ended up on the losing end of the argument in court. The School District board of trustees recently included the following language on the agenda and I'm wondering if it violates a citizen’s First […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Blog

    Celebrate Sunshine Week in California–Hold Public Officials Accountable for Access to Information

    […] local newspaper against that county. Two public employee unions in Alameda County are appealing lower court rulings ordering the city of Oakland to disclose the names and salaries of public employees making more than $100,000 a year. The California Supreme Court is considering that case. There's no good reason for the public officials in […]

    June 2, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    City Council disbursed funds without allowing comment by groups they shortchanged

    The city council was previously instructed to fairly distribute funds to all domestic violence shelters in L.A.  Members decided to give the majority of the funds to just two of the thirteen shelters and wouldn't take comments from the 11 shelters that were shortchanged. Our agency in fact serves more people than the two […]

    February 15, 2012