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Are Search & Rescue Board Meetings subject to Brown Act?

[…] of supervisors, to see if it may have been created by an official act of the board of supervisors. If so, then the search and rescue’s board meetings may be governed by the Brown Act. Bryan Cave LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding […]

September 8, 2015
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Brown Act

Filing a Vacancy by Closed Session Appointment

[…] School Board filled a vacancy on the Board by appointment. The filing deadline for interested applicants was 6 hours prior to the beginning of the School Board meeting. The appointment decision was made at that meeting. Should the agenda state the names of the applicants who were interviewed during the meeting? If a public […]

June 14, 2009
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The “deliberative process privilege” is dead or, at best, on life support

[…] that never should have been. By Peter Scheer The chairman of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, Bill Postmus, refuses to make public his calendar of meetings and other government events. This refusal takes no small amount of chutzpah, since Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger regularly releases his calendars, as have all other statewide elected […]
June 2, 2009
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Brown Act

Does newspaper candidate forum constitute a quorum?

[…] to ask the candidates questions about why we should endorse their candidacy. Because there are three candidates currently on the same five-member council, does that constitute a meeting that should be publicly noticed? We are planning on writing a story about the forum to appear soon after the forum and use it for a […]

October 6, 2009
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FAC Supports AB 339’s Open Meeting Provisions

FAC stands with a broad coalition of civic organizations backing a measure that would enhance public participation in government meetings in California. Read our joint letters in support of California Assembly Bill 339.

April 1, 2021
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Brown Act

Council gerrymandering and the Brown Act

[…] The Brown Act does not seem to make it to this part of California. Members of the council poll each other and make decisions before the council meeting, any item they deem goes to closed session and no report of what happened is ever given to the public. Who is responsible to make sure […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

How to cure and correct an improper action

A Commission had four email transmissions between a majority of its members prior to its meeting this week, of which I have copies. The City Attorney found out what was happening and told them to stop it since they were violating the Brown Act, but the meeting went forward anyway. How do we best […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Time allotted for speaking at public meeting

[…] take-over of the Oakland Public Schools, the State Administrator, Randolph Ward, has maintained the following rule for public comment. At a regular State Administrator and/or School Board Meeting, a member of the public is restricted to three minutes of public speech on all agenda and non-agenda items. Is this rule a violation of the […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Attorneys present at closed meetings

June 14, 2009
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Press Rights

FAC Urges Santa Ana City Council to Withdraw Press Restrictions on City Council Meetings

Tonight, members of the Santa Ana City Council will consider withdrawing a policy that restricts journalists covering the council. Our comments state: "The policy interferes with the ability of the press to exercise editorial discretion in covering public meetings and runs afoul of the Ralph M. Brown Act’s provisions guaranteeing the public’s ability to record."
September 17, 2024