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After near-death in Supreme Court, will public employee unions change their ways?
March 30, 2016
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Can a school board restrict critical speech about district employees?
[…] simply does not pass constitutional muster. The agenda language also refers to section 54957 of the Brown Act, which allows for a closed session 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." […]June 14, 2009
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Closed Session Voting
As you may know, the Brown Act provides that a legislative body may hold a closed session 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, unless the employee requests a public session." […]June 14, 2009
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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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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
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FAC opposes bill that would weaken open-meetings protections
June 3, 2024
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Advisory committee subject to Brown Act?
June 14, 2009
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Public Funds and the CPRA
June 14, 2009
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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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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