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  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Dealing with a cure and correct notice in a closed session

    Government Code Section 54957 provides that boards may hold closed meetings to "consider the appointment, employment, evaluation of performance, discipline, or dismissal of a public employee or to hear complaints or charges brought against the employee by another person or employee unless the employee requests a public session."  (Full text of Section 54957 reproduced […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Brown Act violation involving resignations

    […] not violate the Brown Act (pertaining to open meetings), but it might violate the Board’s bylaws.  You may want to request a copy, to determine voting and appointment requirements. Additionally, the resignation (and any document rescinding it) may be available to you by way of a public records request.  The Public Records Act provides […]

    April 4, 2016

  • 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

    Brown Act

    Getting information from closed sessions

    […] employee discipline/dismissal/release, the Brown Act provision authorizing a closed session is Government Code section 54957.  This section also authorizes a closed session to discuss a public employee appointment, public employment, or a public employee performance evaluation.  In each of these three cases, the agenda must specify the description of the position at issue.  However, […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act First Amendment

    Bundling agenda action items silences public input

    […] practice our school board school board to "bundle"  regular action items on the agenda. At the only regular board meeting of August 2010, after approving the consent calendar, the board approved the regular agenda items as presented. Their own by-laws state an agenda item will be presented; the administration will give their presentation and […]

    September 17, 2010

  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    Leading Constitutional Law Scholar Erwin Chemerinsky Joins FAC Board

    […] than 200 law review articles and is a frequent contributor to newspapers, legal publications and journals. He maintains a law practice, frequently arguing appellate cases. Before his appointment at Berkeley, he was the founding dean of the UC Irvine School of Law.  "Dean Chemerinsky becomes a director at an exciting time for FAC," said […]

    May 7, 2020