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  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    Ginny LaRoe Named as FAC’s Programs and Outreach Director

    The First Amendment Coalition is pleased to announce the appointment of Ginny LaRoe, a veteran reporter and editor with substantial experience in legal affairs news, as FAC’s Programs and Outreach Director. LaRoe spent more than a decade on staff at newspapers in five states, primarily focused on the criminal justice system and local government. […]

    July 29, 2019

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Accessing bids for public contracts

    […] is inapplicable to records, like the public bid, the contents of which have already been publicly revealed.  Times Mirror allowed the governor to refuse to release his calendars and other records of people he met with, on the theory that this would reveal too much of the deliberative process.  Neither the policies supporting nor […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Can new board member get updated on past closed sessions?

    I am a newly elected school board member. Our upcoming agenda will contain a closed session item that has also been discussed in closed session prior to my appointment. Can I ask the staff and board members who participated in the prior closed session to divulge what was discussed?

    November 28, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Charter board meetings flout Brown Act rules

    […] to the security of public buildings, essential public services, or that threaten the public's right of access to such buildings/services (Gov. Code §54957(a)); or to consider the appointment, employment, evaluation of performance, discipline, etc. of a public employee or to hear complaints or charges brought against the employee by another person (Gov. Code §54957(b)). […]

    June 8, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    County Ignores My Requests For Public Records

    […] records, and sets deadlines for public agencies to respond to records requests. Cal. Gov. Code§6253(c). 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."Though public agencies will often miss […]

    August 7, 2020

  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    Former FAC Executive Director Peter Scheer Awarded Society of Professional Journalists Career Achievement Prize

    […] admissions records of the California State Bar.  Other FAC lawsuits filed under the CPRA resulted in disclosure of records about: high-tech surveillance devices used by local police; calendars of the governor and the governor’s top aides; government officials’ use of private email accounts to avoid disclosure of public records; names of visitors to jails […]

    February 22, 2017

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    District Hospitals and Closed Sessions

    […] that Cal. Gov. Code Sec. 54957 contains a "personnel exemption" which allows the District to hold closed sessions for a variety of reasons, including "to consider the appointment, employment, evaluation of performance, discipline, or dismissal of a public employee..."  Sec. 54957(b)(1).  The purpose of this exemption has been interpreted to be to allow consideration […]

    June 14, 2009