Write a review of FAC to help us keep our Top Rated Nonprofit status!

Search Results

Showing 291 - 300 of 694 results

Asked and Answered

Brown Act

Little League meetings and the Brown Act

Does the Brown Act allow for you to sit in on a Little League meeting in which your conduct is in question by where the Little League officials have the right to suspend a coach without hearing his side of the story?

June 14, 2009
Asked and Answered

Brown Act

Council took action on a for-discussion-only agenda item

A recent city council meeting agenda discussion item stated that "No action was called for." The "summary recommendation" was that the city council "receive and file this report. " However, without any public notice, the City Council took action. I know the Brown Act requires items on which Council acts to be on the […]

December 6, 2010
Asked and Answered

Brown Act CPRA

Developments on Public Lands

[…] camera at public hearings. We do not believe our city officials and staff are acting in the best interests of the city. Almost half of them now recuse themselves at meetings. They tell us (and businesses in town) that things are decided, when the city attorney sends letters saying, "nothing has been signed or decided".

June 14, 2009
Posts

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
Asked and Answered

Brown Act

The city decided in closed session to let Wal Mart pick up legal tab for lawsuit

Tonight the City Attorney reported out on the council's closed-session meeting. She told the public that the meeting had discussed pending litigation over a Wal Mart development-agreement lawsuit; that the council had voted 5-0 to defend the city against the suit; and that they had also agreed in this same closed session to allow […]

August 20, 2012
Asked and Answered

Brown Act

Convening in closed sessions

[…] is whether the visit by four out of five members of the board to the school site in connection with your search for a superintendent constitutes a meeting. The Brown Act defines a "meeting" as "a congregation of a majority of the members of a legislative body at the same time and place to […]

June 14, 2009
Asked and Answered

Brown Act

Agenda Item Descriptions

[…] Brown Act violation for a School Board agenda to include an item on its agenda called "Board Discussion"? I read 54954.2(b) An agenda must ...shall state the meeting time and place and must contain "a brief general description of each item of business to be transacted or discussed at the meeting, including items to […]

June 14, 2009
Posts

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
Asked and Answered

Brown Act

City Council names building without notice

Earlier this month our mayor - during the oral portion of the city council meeting -- stated that he decided to name a city building after a former member of the council who is also a former assemblyman. He asked for unanimous concurrence of the council. Two members of the council questioned the propriety […]

June 14, 2009
Asked and Answered

Brown Act

Do agenda posting times count business days only?

I understand that the Brown Act requires that agendas be made public 72 hours in advance of a meeting. Is that 72 business hours or could posting on a Friday morning (ahead of a Monday meeting) be sufficient notice? This notice would be posted at a California Public Charter School.

March 18, 2016