Write a review of FAC to help us keep our Top Rated Nonprofit status!

Search Results

Clear Results
Category
Topic
Select Year

Showing 231 - 240 of 347 results

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Incoming Superintendent Sitting in on Closed Session

    An incoming superintendent, his term does not being until June, was in on a closed session item on the appointment of a new principal last month. The incoming superintendent was the head of the search committee from the principal and it was his recommendation the board considered and approved. Was it legal for him […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Is a Salary/Wage Review Really A “Trade Secret”?

    […] to back its denial by citing an exemption in the PRA or other state or federal law allowing it to withhold the records you seek.Gov't code § 6255.)You may want to preemptively include some of the law cited above in your letter so that the district will be forced to think through whether its […]

    July 2, 2010

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    CPRA request for animal shelter euthanasia log redact staff members names

    […] respond to the agency with arguments of your own. My guess is that the agency may be claiming the so-called "catch-all" exemption, found in Government Code section 6255.   This exemption requires a strong showing that on the facts of the particular case, the public interest in withholding the record from public view far outweighs the […]

    December 12, 2015

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Toll Road Agency Says There is No 14-day Requirement for Responding to CPRA Requests

    […] the California Public Records Act (CPRA) sets deadlines for agencies to respond to records requests. Agencies are required to respond to written requests for records within 10 calendar days of receipt of the request, and may extend that deadline by an additional 14 days where there are "unusual circumstances."Cal. Gov. Code§6253(c). "Unusual circumstances" include: […]

    January 20, 2021

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Has the Brown Act changed to allow votes on items not on agenda?

    […] as specified in subdivision (a). (3) The item was posted pursuant to subdivision (a) for a prior meeting of the legislative body occurring not more than five calendar days prior to the date action is taken on the item, and at the prior meeting the item was continued to the meeting at which action […]

    March 22, 2015

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    School Board Closed Sessions with Administrators

    […] The Brown Act recognizes a number of distinct occasions when closed sessions are lawful.  Legislative bodies may hold closed sessions for the following reasons: -To consider the appointment, employment, evaluation or performance, discipline, or dismissal of a public employee, or to hear complaints or charges brought against the employee by another person or employee, […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Posts

    Join us in urging the Governor to sign SB 914 to protect privacy and free speech rights

    […] of a pack of cigarettes. But, of course, that ignores the uniquely intrusive nature of coerced disclosure, through a cell phone search, of emails, contacts, notes, photos, calendars, articles, drafts, confidential sources and other files comprising the digital details of one's personal and business life. SB 914 (read the bill), based on the California […]

    September 21, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    Court Records

    CA Supreme Court denied my petition and I demand the right to know why

    […] its orders and judgments, its scheduling and administration of cases, its assignment of judicial officers and administrators," as well as "official court minutes," written orders, the "master calendar," and "the various documents filed in or received by the court. Id. at 113. "All of these documents represent and reflect the official work of the […]

    April 13, 2012