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    Brown Act

    Closed college governing body meeting to endorse trustees candidate

    I have what is probable a simple question for you. I am wondering if a student governing body at a college can meet in close session to discuss possibly endorsing a candidate for the board of trustees in an upcoming election? Would this violate the Brown Act?

    June 14, 2009

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    Ad hoc committees under the Brown Act

    […] complying with the Brown Act (because its only members are less than a quorum of the City Council), become a "standing committee" of the City Council that must comply with the Brown Act (because it has "continuing subject matter jurisdiction")? It appears that you may have a good argument that the City Council is […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Can A Public Official Interrupt A Speaker During Public Comment Time?

    […] the Supervisor's outburst seemed to me to be an attempt discredit my very valid comments. In addition, it is my perception the Supervisor's outburst was to intimidate me from any further public comment regarding the subject. Can you offer me any assistance whether such actions by the Supervisor have violated in anyway the Brown Act?

    May 30, 2018

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    Posting agendas and notification of action in special/closed sessions

    A School Board is subject to the Brown Act yet a principal was dismissed without cause after a Special meeting /closed session in which no one was notified nor was it posted at the site where the meeting was held (it was posted on a website) nor has the decision been posted for the ten […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Must An Agency Provide Translation Services for Board Members Who Need Them?

    We work with a number of local water boards. Community Service Districts and Public Utility Districts. which are required to comply with the Brown Act. The boards we work with are typically in disadvantaged communities, where Spanish is the language of a large number of residents (if not the majority). I have been trying […]

    December 14, 2020

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    What the Brown Act Rules on a Postponing Public Meeting?

    My employer—a Business Improvement District—had a regularly scheduled board meeting that per our contract with the City must be open to the public. Thirty minutes before the meeting the executive director sent me home, due to my failure to respond to a text message while on my lunch hour. In the past, myself and […]

    December 13, 2018

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    Government officials beware: the “private” emails you write today will be public tomorrow

    It has become a regrettably common practice. . . . Local government officials, when sending emails about government business, use their private email accounts--rather than their dot-gov accounts--to assure that the messages will never see the light of day. In a case involving the city of San Jose, a Superior Court judge recently ruled […]

    April 24, 2013

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Special District Compliance

    Which State Agency and/or which State Department oversees, enforce, and/or investigate Special District compliance with California Government Codes:  Mitigation Fees (Sections 66000), Brown Act and Public Records Act?

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Recording public’s comments in board minutes

    To what extent must a public district board include in their monthly board of directors meeting minutes, which are available to the public, verbatim or synopsized comments made by the public at the prior month’s public board meeting? Can a district board elect not to include any or all such public comments from board […]

    June 14, 2009