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    Why Support FAC?

    Two Temecula residents sued the school district and its Board of Trustees for violating their rights by ejecting them from school board meetings without cause.

    July 20, 2024

  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment

    Law unclear on collecting signatures on private property in California

    […] the nature and extent of the public invitation to use the property, the evidence showed that the stores are uniformly designed to encourage shopping as opposed to meeting friends, congregating or lingering." The Pruneyard line of cases does suggest, however, that private commercial property that encourages the congregation of individuals --, the common area […]

    October 24, 2011

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    Brown Act

    Planning a Closed Session to Allow Confidential Documents

    Under the Brown Act, "otwithstanding Section 6255 or any other provisions of law, agendas of public meetings and any other writings, when distributed to all, or a majority of all, of the members of a legislative body of a local agency by any person in connection with a matter subject to discussion or consideration […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Water Board repeatedly violates Brown Act

    I recently attended a meeting of a publicly-elected Water Board. There were three Brown Act violations during the meeting. One of the violations was attempted and the attorney for the Board interrupted the Board and informed them that they were in violation of the Brown Act. Subsequently, this same Board held an opening of […]

    December 31, 2010

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    Request a Training

    […] changes that opened up public access to certain categories of records of police personnel and investigatory records. It can be customized for journalists or community members. Public Meetings Tutorial An introduction to California’s public meetings laws, the Brown Act and Bagley-Keene Act, with an overview of agenda requirements, closed session, public comment rules, teleconferencing […]

    June 12, 2024

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    Brown Act CPRA

    City-Funded Committees with Non-Public Official Member

    The issue is that the City funded a committee of residents to develop a strategy to pass an open space initiative (at one Council meeting the money was referred to as seed money).  Two City Council members were on the committee, but have refused to give the names of the other members. The ordinance […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Blog

    Recent court decisions transform legal tools for protecting free speech into an instrument for the suppression of the public’s speech and access rights

    […] of the agencies they served. In Holbrook, two members of the Santa Monica City Council challenged the Council’s practice of postponing the public comment period at Council meetings until the end of the meeting, when most members of the public—exhausted by interminable discussions and hearings —had left and gone home. In Californians Aware, a […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Forcing public official to attend Brown Act training

    […] respective authorities (and/or lack thereof), parliamentary procedure & protocol - in general, to learn how to "play well together?" 2) Is there provision or precedent for a majority of directors to discuss construction of an agenda (content, order, etc.) prior to a meeting (assuming they do not substantially debate the merits of individual agenda items)?

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Minutes deadline

    Does a City have a timeframe within which it must provide a record (minutes) of Council Meetings?  I am having difficulty in obtaining (being allowed to inspect) minutes from 3 months ago? The city indicates they are not "ready."

    June 14, 2009