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    Brown Act CPRA

    Community College Senate, Listservs, and Public Record

    […] Public Records Act. With regard to the Brown Act, there is a question on whether the communication among senate members via the listserve you reference constitutes a serial meeting in violation of the Brown Act.  As you appear to be aware of, the meetings of the academic senate of a California community college are subject […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    City Attorney says legal analysis is a CPRA exemption

    […] subject of an open or closed session of City Council. Can City Attorney distribute such a memo to City Council members without it constituting an impermissible unnoticed serial meeting? Any other ideas for how citizens can get analysis made public? Analysis is crucial to City Council decision to go forward with contract with private outdoor […]

    June 10, 2013

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    Brown Act

    City Councilmembers texting each other while deliberating

    […] a "serial" meeting in violation of section 54952.2(b)(1) might have occurred. The Attorney General's guide offers other illustrations of violations of the Brown Act's prohibition of such serial meetings that you might find helpful as you analyze the situation in Pomona. Bryan Cave LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to […]

    July 10, 2014

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    Brown Act

    Quorums, Listservs, and the Brown Act

    […] listserv does not in and of itself violate the Brown Act, a Brown Act violation would exist to the extent the listserv is used to conduct a serial 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

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    Brown Act

    Councilmembers May Have Met Privately to Agree on Vote Outcome

    […] of the members of the city council. You might want to review the FAC’s primer on the Brown Act, specifically the section on what constitutes a " serial meeting." This could help you determine whether or not such a meeting might have taken place that resulted in concurrence on this issue outside of a properly […]

    November 6, 2018

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    Blog FAC News

    Remembering FAC Founding Father and California Journalism Giant, Frank McCulloch

    […] plane passenger traffic. McCulloch made news himself in l972 when author Clifford Irving claimed to have interviewed the by-then reclusive Hughes for a book and Life Magazine serialized the story as authentic. Hughes called McCulloch, then working in Time-Life New York headquarters, to reveal it as a hoax, and McCulloch stopped the Life presses […]

    May 31, 2018

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    Brown Act

    Closed door assessor appointment – possible Brown Act violation

    […] of the members of a particular legislative body that take place outside the confines of a properly noticed meeting. In other words, under the Brown Act, a serial meeting in violation of the Act may have occurred if  "a series of communications of any kind , directly or through intermediaries, to discuss, deliberate, or take action […]

    April 21, 2016