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    Brown Act

    Future Council Members, Participation, and the Brown Act

    […] says that it would violate the Brown Act if, as future members, either of us participated in the appeal or spoke to the Council during the appeal meeting.  (We both regularly address the Council at other meetings.) DOES it violate the Brown Act if we help present our group's appeal to the present City […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    When are closed sessions legitimized under the Brown Act?

    I serve as a trustee on a California school board, and I have a Brown Act-related question. At our next board meeting we will be discussing whether to allow exemptions to the ban on carrying concealed weapons on campus (under SB 707). There is some move toward having the discussion in closed session on […]

    March 29, 2016

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    Board retailiating against former colleague who called them on Brown Act violations

    […] sector experience. Since his employment, I caught and exposed some misuse of public funds, taking gifts from contractors. Also, the Brown Act is violated at nearly every meeting. Contracts involving money all done in closed sessions. All these and more are exposed by me at public meetings. I am as harsh on the Board […]

    August 21, 2011

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    Brown Act

    Does the Brown Act allow closed session negotiations for all public school contracts?

    […] in the ultimate results of these labor negotiations, section 54957.6 is to be construed narrowly in favor of the Act’s general requirement of holding open and public  meetings." The follow up question is whether there is any weight to an Attorney General’s opinion. I have contacted our local District Attorney and they barely will […]

    July 19, 2016

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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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    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

    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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    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 CPRA

    Redaction of investigative report

    The Brown Act governs access to meetings and provides exemptions for when meetings may be held in closed session.  Unfortunately there is no section of the Brown Act that requires a government body such as the city council to meet for discussion regarding a particular topic. The Public Record Act governs which government records […]

    August 12, 2014