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  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Filing a Vacancy by Closed Session Appointment

    The local School Board filled a vacancy on the Board by appointment.  The filing deadline for interested applicants was 6 hours prior to the beginning of the School Board meeting.  The appointment decision was made at that meeting. Should the agenda state the names of the applicants who were interviewed during the meeting? If […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Court Records

    Requesting electronic trial court records

    I am trying to access a criminal court’s calendar for a 3 month period of time in 2004. Is there is a different public records request when trying to access information from the courts?

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment Police Records

    Requesting employee-related information

    I am trying to access a criminal court’s calendar for a 3 month period of time in 2004. Is there is a different public records request when trying to access information from the courts?

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Closed door assessor appointment – possible Brown Act violation

    […] individual communicated his promise to a majority of the members of the board out of view of the public "to discuss, deliberate, or take action on" his appointment, then there may be a Brown Act violation. There are three ways to enforce the Brown Act—the third of which addresses your question about negating this […]

    April 21, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    Court Records

    Obtaining records of traffic citations

    Pursuant to the California Rules of Court regarding public access to electronic trial court records, you can request bulk distribution of a California Superior Court's electronic calendar, register of actions, and index for traffic court cases.  (Cal. Rule of Court 2073(g).)  Please note, however, that California Rule of Court Rule 2073 does not require […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Government agency refusal of email records

    I was refused access to government emails and correspondence because the records were determined to be exempt from disclosure under the Public Records Act (recognized under the public interest balancing exemption provided by Government Code section 6255). Does this also refuse my right to access the time and date of the email correspondence?

    April 12, 2016

  • Handbooks

    California Brown Act Primer

    […] an emergency (see above). When two-thirds of the legislative body agree there is a need to take immediate action on a matter about which the body could not have been aware earlier (see above). When an item has been expressly held over from a prior meeting occurring not more than five calendar days previously. 19

    September 8, 2024

  • Latest News

    Blog

    The “deliberative process privilege” is dead or, at best, on life support

    […] FOI loophole that never should have been. By Peter Scheer The chairman of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, Bill Postmus, refuses to make public his calendar of meetings and other government events. This refusal takes no small amount of chutzpah, since Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger regularly releases his calendars, as have all other […]

    June 2, 2009