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  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Can new board members ask for past closed session update?

    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 then?

    February 20, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Access to agenda attachments

    […] of all, of the members of a legislative body, whichever occurs first. Any request for mailed copies of agendas or agenda packets shall be valid for the calendar year in which it is filed, and must be renewed following January 1 of each year. The legislative body may establish a fee for mailing the […]

    June 14, 2009

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    FAC News Press Release

    Clara Hogan Named as FAC’s Communications and Programs Director

    The First Amendment Coalition is pleased to announce the appointment of Clara Hogan, a journalist and communications specialist with substantial experience in the nonprofit sector, as FAC’s Communications and Programs Director. After starting her career in journalism as the managing editor of the 50,000-circulation student newspaper of the University of Iowa, and serving as […]

    September 13, 2017

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Court Employee Anonymity

    […] we will call Category I documents, would be the official court minutes, all its written orders and dispositions, the official reports of oral proceedings, and the master calendar. Also included in Category I of court documents would be the various documents filed in or received by the court, such as the pleadings and motions […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    When does the 10 days count start with a CPRA request?

    […] states that a response shall be made "within 10 days from receipt of the request."  In general, when a statute does not specifically provide for "business" days, calendar days apply.  With respect to when the 10 days begins to run, California Code of Civil Procedure section 12 provides that the "time in which any […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    City’s stonewalling newspapers

    […] we only communicate through documents gotten through public records requests.  A recent from us to the city asked for "all audits performed by Municipal Auditing Services in calendar years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007".  The city attorney sent a letter stating they will not give us the information, citing Section 6245(i) -- basically, […]

    June 14, 2009