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What the Brown Act Rules on a Postponing Public Meeting?
December 13, 2018
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Can a public official delete users’ comments and block them from the official’s social media account?
March 6, 2025
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Regularly Scheduled Special Meetings
June 14, 2009
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Urgent meeting scheduled for July 4 seemed to circumvent the public process
July 13, 2014
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In Texas, town hall meeting nixed videotaping
August 1, 2011
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Access to City Manager’s compensation denied
[…] form. With respect to the email communications between the three directors, violations of the Brown Act would be implicated here if the directors somehow created a " serial meeting" through communications with each other. Under the Brown Act, a "meeting" includes any congregation of a majority of the members of a legislative body at […]July 28, 2011
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Does the Brown Act apply when board members attend a Town Hall meeting?
[…] take action within the meeting of the Brown Act. In 2006, in a case called Wolfe v. City of Fremont, the Court of Appeal noted that " serial individual meetings that do not result in a 'collective concurrence' do not violate the Brown Act." 144 Cal. App. 4th 533, 545 n. 6 (2006). The […]December 29, 2011
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Minutes of City Council meetings don’t tell whole story
[…] members of the public, this may not only violate the Brown Act per the provisions above, but may also mean the members are taking part in a serial meeting, whereby "a series of communications of any kind, directly or through intermediaries," is used by a majority of the members of an agency to "discuss, deliberate, or […]March 7, 2014