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Brown Act

Criteria for Serial Meeting

[…] communications which contribute to the development of a concurrence as to action to be taken by the legislative body." The Brown Act: Open Meetings for Local Legislative Bodies, p. 12 (Cal. Atty General's Office 2003). Various California courts have also interpreted the Brown Act's serial meeting prohibition consistent with the California Attorney General's interpretation […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Public Funds and the CPRA

[…] is authority for the proposition that agencies that are subject to the Brown Act are subject to the PRA, as well. The definition of "local agency" under Government Code Section 6252 includes "nonprofit entities that are legislative bodies of a local agency pursuant to subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 54952 ." Section 54952(c) […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Can a California City Council Cut Public Comment Time with No Notice Before Meeting?

[…] of the meeting, this has been reduced to two minutes. I've reviewed (to the best of my ability) relevant case law that allows for deviations from the Brown Act when there is a lengthy agenda, or where the city's Rules and Procedures outline that speakers can be given "up to" three minutes. But Rules […]

August 26, 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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Make no mistake, China’s censorship of the internet is a crime against liberty on a mass scale. Still, American firms can’t just steer clear of the world’s biggest market. What to do?

[…] double-digit rates, China’s internet is a business opportunity so grand and irresistible that it can blind normally circumspect people to the moral compromises that cooperation with Chinese government authorities inevitably entails. I experienced this first-hand when, about a year ago, I made inquiries at the China offices of a number of American law firms […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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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 […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
March 24, 2014
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Brown Act

How much detail does the Brown Act require for agenda items?

The board of supervisors recently passed a resolution requiring public water and sewer for homes built on properties smaller than 40 acres. The resolution number was not listed on the agenda. Is this a violation of the Brown Act?

June 8, 2012
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CPRA

Can I access emails of city employees using personal emails for city business?

[…] public officials using private email accounts and mobile phones to conduct the public's business seems to be becoming a pervasive problem. It would seem that if a government official uses a personal email account to send messages relating to the conduct of the public's business, a strong argument could be made that those messages […]

November 17, 2011
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CPRA

Private institutions, public funds and the CPRA

[…] local agencies. Under certain circumstances outlined in section 54952(c) of the Brown Act (incorporated into the PRA by section 6252 of the PRA), entities that are legislative bodies of a local agency may be subject to the PRA. Section 54952(c) defines "legislative body" as:"(c) (1) A board, commission, committee, or other multimember body that […]

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Whistleblower accused of Brown Act Violation

[…] to a hazardous condition on public property leased by a developer during a publicly noticed joint advisory committee meeting. The County DA is threatening me with a Brown Act violation for attempting to speak out. I never actually made my comment during the committee meeting because the committee walked out of the meeting three […]

May 24, 2018