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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. 19September 8, 2024
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California Public Records Act Primer
[…] required to produce them in native format without such a request] Please keep in mind your agency’s obligations under the law require you to: Respond within 10 calendar days. [If you are seeking electronic records in native format] Produce electronic records in the format in which you hold them. Help me to make a […]July 8, 2024
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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
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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
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FAC Intervenes After a Man Was Refused Bodyworn Camera Footage of His Own Arrest by Redding Police
November 25, 2025
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FAC Represents Newsroom After Shasta Elections Official Illegally Excludes its Journalists from Media Release Distribution
October 9, 2025
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SPLC, FAC urge Stanford to call for DA to decline charges against student journalist
January 17, 2025
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2023 Impact Report
May 1, 2024
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