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    Unauthorized meetings to discuss matters within jurisdiction

    I have questions about the brown act.  If three city council members meet at private home owners associations and each discuss city business and pending issues the council will be voting on, is that considered a violation of the brown act?

    June 14, 2009

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    Obligation to post minutes if no action is taken

    […] the minutes ASAP for 10 days after the meeting even if no vote was taken? The superintendent has told me no minutes need to be taken unless action or a vote was taken?This "Special Meeting" had one agenda Item listed and that was "Strategic Planning Session." Public comment was allowed only at the beginning […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Multiple Requests to Pull Item off Consent Agenda Overridden by County Supervisors

    […] 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.

    October 30, 2020

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    Governor signs FAC-sponsored access bill

    […] Arnold Schwarzenegger signed SB 786 that limits the ability of state and local governmental agencies to win fee awards from citizens bringing lawsuits under the state’s open government laws -DB Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law SB 768 on August 6 a measure vital to maintaining the ability of citizens to seek redress of […]

    August 10, 2009

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    Foreign media at Olympics urged to press home governments to demand China lift internet censorship

    […] on news media covering the Olympics to demand that China tear down "The Great Firewall"--the elaborate system of filters blocking access to online content deemed objectionable by government censors. The California First Amendment Coalition, which has petitioned the US Trade Representative to contest China's censorship as a restraint on international commerce that violates free […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Police are wrong: Cop-cam videos must be released as public records

    […] immediately see body camera and dashboard camera footage. The LAPD’s videotape nondisclosure policy has other legal problems. The Public Records Act states that whenever an agency releases a government record to any "member of the public," that agency waives the right to confidentiality, a California appellate court said in a 1974 case called Black Panther […]

    October 6, 2016

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    How to sabotage California’s Public Records Act

    By Peter Scheer—If you were looking for a way to sabotage America's freedom-of-information laws, you couldn't do much better than a legal strategy being pursued by government entities in two California towns. The public school district of Willows, in Glenn County, and the town of Sebastopol, near Petaluma, have been sued, in unrelated cases, […]

    October 15, 2012

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    CFAC Update: Acting globally and locally: From internet censorship in China to a TRO against Atherton, CA

    […] both globally and locally, in the last 2 months. First globally: CFAC has initiated a proceeding that will attempt to use international trade laws to force the government of China to end its censorship of the internet. In a submission and presentation to the Office of the US Trade Representative, CFAC has petitioned for […]

    June 3, 2009

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    California agencies have no business claiming copyright protection for public records

    […] other creative types in the private sector? Yes, but the federal Copyright Act also allows states to elect copyright protection. This is a big deal. Copyright protection for government records poses a real danger because copyright is in direct conflict with the public’s right of access, under state FOI laws, to government records.  The whole […]

    June 22, 2016