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    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

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    Newsgathering

    Audio Recording, Meetings

    Is it legal in California for a homeowner to secretly tape a HOA meeting. What rights do I have as a homeowner when I find that I have unknowingly been taped of my comments as a homeowner at a monthly HOA meeting? Does any homeowner have the right to tape without disclosure? Does the […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    City Attorney says legal analysis is a CPRA exemption

    […] subject of an open or closed session of City Council. Can City Attorney distribute such a memo to City Council members without it constituting an impermissible unnoticed serial meeting? Any other ideas for how citizens can get analysis made public? Analysis is crucial to City Council decision to go forward with contract with private outdoor […]

    June 10, 2013

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    Brown Act

    Barring the Media from recording an Open Meeting

    Can a Home Owners Association Board of Directors prohibit a member of the press from recording the events during the open session of the monthly meeting in which the press was invited by a group of home owners?

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    Limiting Public Comment at Meetings

    I want to understand why my City Council can limit comment during a single meeting by a member of the public to five minutes total for a particular class of items (consent agenda items), no matter how many items are categorized as such, and no matter how many items an individual wishes to speak […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Bagley-Keene Act

    Is a task force a “state body” under the Bagley-Keene Act?

    Caltrans is holding Highway Task Force meetings and it has been announced that these meetings will not be open to the public. I received the following reply from the Caltrans public affairs: Since this is not a public meeting, the task force meeting will be made up of 10 members from each community that […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    I ask for transparency; they ask me to resign

    […] Superintendent without any public input because it wasn't properly agendized. I am also concerned that a committee I serve on has been deemed a closed door confidential meeting per the Brown Act. I am an unpaid, parent volunteer on the committee and one of several stakeholders (parents, community, retired teacher, district employees and paid […]

    January 11, 2012

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Community College Senate, Listservs, and Public Record

    […] Public Records Act. With regard to the Brown Act, there is a question on whether the communication among senate members via the listserve you reference constitutes a serial meeting in violation of the Brown Act.  As you appear to be aware of, the meetings of the academic senate of a California community college are subject […]

    June 14, 2009