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  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act First Amendment

    Stripped of First Amendment Rights By City Council

    I went to a city council meeting and a woman was being proposed for city office. I condemned her appointment, saying Martin Luther King Jr. would not have approved. I also condemned the homosexuals in the room. Christianity is often condemned by others with no results, but this time, the Mayor interrupted me and […]

    December 4, 2018

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Reporting closed sessions decisions

    […] said publicly that the council had reached a decision that "involves litigation," but he did not discuss the details. No decision was announced after that city council meeting. I assumed that would mean an announcement would come at the next city council meeting following closed session. Again, this did not happen. What are the […]

    June 5, 2010

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    School district denies Brown Act violation. What next?

    […] and the attorney representing our school district. My letter was sent on April 10, 2013, and it referenced several Brown Act violations related to a School Board meeting on March 12, 2013 where the decision was made to release me from my position without cause. The attorney responded back within 30 days (on May […]

    June 17, 2013

  • Asked and Answered

    Bagley-Keene Act Newsgathering

    Arrested at meeting for commenting on no-public-comment rule

    I was arrested recently while attending and covering as a journalist a wildlife protection meeting. The meeting is sponsored and regulated by the California Natural Resources Agency and the Dept. of Fish and Game. The facilitators illegally tried to establish a no public comment and no recording policy at these public meetings. I was arrested […]

    July 2, 2010

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Closed Sessions of City Council Meetings

    Where I live, the city council has the closed session portion of the meeting first.  This leads the public to believe things on the agenda are being voted on and the decision is made on the item, before the public has the opportunity to comment on the item. Is this legal i.e. holding closed session […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Posts

    Public meetings protections remain in place — for now

    […] legislative victory that is crucial to government accountability and civic engagement. In a bipartisan vote, a committee of the California Legislature voted down AB 817, keeping in place important public- meeting protections. As we shared last week, we opposed AB 817 because it would have excused a wide range of government bodies governed by the Brown Act to meet entirely virtually, […]

    June 13, 2024

  • Asked and Answered

    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

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

    […] of seven or so members (including the president, vice president, etc.) of the Academic Senate. The Executive Board meets regularly and the Academic Senate bylaws state the meeting must be open to the public. The overall consensus of the Executive Board is that the meeting should be open to the public. (This issue was […]

    May 22, 2013

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    Brown Act Newsgathering

    Inadequate notification of Special District meetings

    I report for the local community newspaper. The local Special District (Fire) has its regular meeting on the second Tuesday of each month. For quite a while the agenda was emailed to all board members and to me (upon standing automatically renewed request) on the preceding Friday. Recently the District started posting the agenda […]

    June 14, 2009