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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
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Brown Act

City Council Met Prior to Public Meeting and Made Last-Minute Agenda Changes

[…] 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 […]

May 17, 2018
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Brown Act

Board of Directors Closed Session

[…] bodies would not be able to consider a reduction of members of the body in closed session because the provision permitting a closed session to "consider the appointment, employment, evaluation of performance, or dismissal of a public employee" (the "personnel" exemption) actually excludes members of the legislative body from the definition of "employees." See […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Advisory committee subject to Brown Act?

June 14, 2009
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CPRA

When government outsources program are documents public?

October 10, 2011
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Newsgathering

Two-weeks notice before campus photographers can take pictures in bookstore

Recently our vice president asked the student news media to send a written request two weeks in advance of their desire to take photographs inside the campus bookstore during open hours. Is that legal? Or does the bookstore on a public college property outside the classroom count as public property? Would the same apply to […]

October 22, 2013
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Brown Act

Application of the Brown Act to Volunteer Fire Companies

June 14, 2009
Cases

FAC Urges Federal Court to Uphold Right to Appeal Denials of Anti-SLAPP Motions

[…] Ninth Circuit precedent that the denial of an anti-SLAPP motion in federal court is subject to immediate appeal, as it is in state court, rather than at the end of the case, which is typical in federal court. On March 1, the court took oral argument off calendar pending an expected settlement between the parties.

February 8, 2024
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Brown Act CPRA

Regional Centers and the CPRA

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act CPRA

County Bar Association and the CPRA and Brown Act

June 14, 2009