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    Brown Act

    How can I stop city from violating Brown Act during budget meetings?

    The city is having a budget meeting. The printed budget is over 500 pages and is divided into department sections. The Mayor prohibits public comment by department, instead he only permits public comment at the end of each day's meetings, and then the public is limited to three minutes. I believe this is a Brown […]

    November 14, 2014

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    Brown Act

    Reporting closed sessions decisions

    […] enforce the Brown Act may be entitled to recover attorneys' fees. Please note, however, that there are strict deadlines for enforcing the Brown Act, including sending a cure-and-correct letter within a certain amount of time.You can find more information about the Brown Act, including enforcing the Act, at the FAC web site (http://firstamendmentcoalition.org/category/resources/access-to-meetings/) Access […]

    June 5, 2010

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    CPRA

    Agency missed CPRA request deadline

    You are correct that California's Public Records Act provides that records must be made available for inspection during an agency's office hours and that copies of public records must be made available "promptly" upon payment of any duplication fees.Govt. Code Section 6253(b). The PRA directs agencies to determine whether a request calls for the […]

    October 12, 2010

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    Court Records CPRA Police Records

    Denied access to supervision records of high-risk parolee

    […] good example of how this often works. In that case, a number of media entities sought various records related to Garrido's parole from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and records related to the investigation of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the parole subsequent to his arrest in 2009. […]

    November 30, 2011

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    CPRA Newsgathering

    Dental Board of California & the CPRA

    […] use to assess a licensee. Rather, in the court's opinion, they only applied to those reports that were currently being used to assess licensees. Am I interpreting the law correctly? I would like to appeal the Board's decision, and I would be grateful for any guidance you could offer about how best to go about that.

    April 19, 2016

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    Written public comment not read as promised before City Council vote taken

    […] I have since requested that the City Attorney review and advise. No response has been received. I then sent a certified letter to the City Attorney, District Attorney, and emailed all council members. Does any of this require that the item be reconsidered or that litigation may be required to cure and correct the action?

    June 14, 2016