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  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    aa-Housing Authority Board of Commissioners and the Brown Act

    […] couple of questions regarding the Board of Commissioners for the Housing Authority of my city and the Brown Act. 1.) The posting of the Agenda for Board meetings lists out the items to be discussed and the order in which to do so. In all such postings the agenda item for public comment is […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act First Amendment

    School board changed public comments without notice

    […] called in the order in which their "yellow cards"  had been submitted to the clerk of the board. One hour was allotted at the beginning of the meeting with an additional time at the end of the meeting. This year, the President, in "consultation" with the Interim Superintendent,  has now decided to group requests […]

    March 30, 2010

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Council-elect make decisions, but claim documents are not public

    […] the major donors but have been denied. A couple of additional facts: no city money is going toward the celebration. Also, although the five council members-elect have not been sworn, they have been meeting as a council-elect since July and making decision (hiring an interim city manager, a city clerk and a city attorney, etc.).

    October 21, 2010

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Can a school board restrict critical speech about district employees?

    […] jurisdiction of the board. However, it is important for members of the public to understand that derogatory comments against district employees, or others, made in a board meeting, can be actionable as defamation under certain circumstances. In addition, derogatory comments made at a board meeting which are repeated outside the context of a board […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    City Council disbursed funds without allowing comment by groups they shortchanged

    […] that restrictions on comments be administered in a neutral way and not based on the content of the expected speech. Under the Brown Act -- California's open meetings law -- the legislative bodies of local agencies are required to provide opportunities for the public to comment at regular meetings, as follows: (a) Every agenda […]

    February 15, 2012

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    A City Council’s COVID-19 Ordinance Allows Only email or Pre-Recorded Telephonic Comments

    […] suspended the requirement that "members of the public may address the body of each teleconference location" and " local legislative body or state body that holds a meeting via teleconferencing and allows members of the public to observe and address the meeting telephonically or otherwise electronically. . . shall have satisfied any requirement that […]

    January 20, 2021

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Proprietary information in the public record

    […] council appointed a Taser task force. The City Attorney's office regularly reminded the task force that it was subject to the Brown Act. I recorded the public meetings on video, and uploaded to YouTube part of a presentation by a consultant for Taser Intl., given at one of the meetings. Now YouTube has removed […]

    June 14, 2009