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    Brown Act

    Closed college governing body meeting to endorse trustees candidate

    […] body to consider the endorsement of a candidate for the Board of Trustees in a closed meeting. Although the Brown Act permits closed meetings "to consider the appointment, employment, evaluation of performance, discipline, or dismissal of a public employee," Cal. Govt. Code Section 54957, this personnel exemption does not seem applicable to the situation […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Secret Ballots

    The Brown Act prohibits action by secret ballot.  See Gov. Code § 54953(c).  Although the Brown Act authorizes a closed session to discuss the appointment of a public employee, the legislative body must publicly report any action taken in closed session at the public meeting during which the closed session was held, and must […]

    June 14, 2009

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    A Guide to 2023 Open Meetings Law Changes

    […] accessible physical location inside the jurisdictional territory. Individual members cannot participate remotely for more than three consecutive months, 20 percent of regular meetings or twice in a calendar year for bodies that meet fewer than 10 times per year. The legislative body must implement a procedure for receiving and swiftly resolving requests for reasonable […]

    February 16, 2023

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    First Amendment Newsgathering

    The DA gives information to other media, but refuses to make it available to our newspaper

    […] to which the press generally was invited (Borreca v. Fasi, supra, 369 F.Supp. 906), where a district attorney required reporters for a disfavored newspaper to obtain advance appointments not required of other reporters (Southwestern Newspapers Corp. v. Curtis, supra, 584 S.W.2d 362), where a racetrack reporter was forbidden to carry a camera into paddock […]

    August 20, 2010

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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