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California Brown Act Primer
Serial meetings constitute a meeting if done to discuss public business, regardless of whether the group actually forms a consensusSeptember 8, 2024
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A Guide to 2023 Open Meetings Law Changes
February 16, 2023
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Changing Regular Meetings to Special Meetings
June 14, 2009
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Closed City Council Meetings Outside Regular Meeting
[…] meetings, and thus the staff meetings are probably not "meetings" as defined on the fact of the Brown Act. Still, the meetings you describe may be " serial meetings," which are prohibited under the Brown Act. The serial meeting prohibition provides that "except as authorized pursuant to section 54953, any use of direct communication, […]June 14, 2009
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A Group of City Council Staffers Can Constitute a Serial Meeting, too
There may, indeed, be a Brown Act violation here if any communications these staffers relate back to their respective council members leads to a so-called a " serial meeting" among members of this committee.Under the Brown Act, a "meeting" includes any congregation of a majority of the members of a legislative body at the […]July 13, 2010
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Workshops v. Special Meetings
June 14, 2009
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Discussion of Employee Termination in Closed Session
[…] a collective concurrence as to action taken on any item by the members of the legislative body is prohibited." The Attorney General takes the position that a serial meeting, in violation of section 54952.2(b), may occur where there is a chain of communications (A communicates with B, B communicates with C, and so on), […]June 14, 2009
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Can a city council member control clapping during a meeting?
April 24, 2025
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Can I be charged for agenda-item documents?
October 20, 2011