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    Brown Act

    Private Homeowners Associations

    Does the Brown Act apply to private Homeowners Associations or only to local and state gov't? I want to discuss dismissing a management company and I'm being kept from discussing their removal except in their presence at a Board meeting by other Board members.

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Filing a Vacancy by Closed Session Appointment

    […] hours prior to the beginning of the School Board meeting.  The appointment decision was made at that meeting. Should the agenda state the names of the applicants who were interviewed during the meeting? If a public citizen asked to see the application material and was turned down, is that a violation of the Brown Act?

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Has the public comment requirement changed due to Gov. Newsom’s executive order amid the COVID-19 pandemic?

    […] here. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation. No attorney-client relationship has been formed by way of this response.

    July 21, 2020

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    Brown Act

    Is holding a public meeting inside a gated community a violation of California’s Brown Act?

    […] inside a gated community. The POA claims they will allow public access. However, the public would have to drive into the community and be stopped and questioned by a private POA security guard at the gates. Vehicle registration and a valid driver's license are usually required. Is this a possible violation of the Brown Act? 

    April 28, 2021

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    Brown Act

    Is there a Posting Date Requirement for Minutes of Public Agency Meetings?

    […] here. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation. No attorney-client relationship has been formed by way of this response.

    January 20, 2021

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    Obfuscating Mercy: How the California Supreme Court Finally Addressed Secretive Pardons

    […] court will no longer categorically treat clemency files as confidential. Admin. Order 2021-05-26. Instead, when a member of the public submits a motion to unseal, the governor must resubmit the file in conformity with the court’s access rules. The new rule provides clarity, and removes one of the primary authorities the governor relied on […]

    September 17, 2021

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    Government officials should listen to voters instead of lawyers selling strategies for blocking access to information

    Regardless of what they say to the contrary, government agencies are in the business of withholding information from the public (or, what amounts to the same thing, disclosing only that information that the agencies want the public to have). This tight-fistedness about information is written into government's DNA. But some efforts to withhold information […]

    March 24, 2014

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Request denied for fire district celebration guest list

    To withhold the report as a"draft," the city must meet a 3-part test set out by the California Court of Appeals: (1) it must show the report is"predecisional" -- i.e., it was prepared to aid the city in making some other decision; (2) it must show the report is not something that the city […]

    August 16, 2013

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    Swearing in public commenters at open meetings

    […] council on any subject." They go onto to state that anyone making false statements may be held to answer to criminal penalties.   They have invoked this "swearing in" requirement on members of the public who have criticized their actions.   I am unaware of any authority possessed by the council which would allow such a requirement.

    June 14, 2009