Search Results

Clear Results
Category
Topic
Select Year

Showing 291 - 300 of 1916 results

    Showing results for government bodies must comply brown act 54951 act90 54951 act 54951 act90 54951 54951 54951

  • Latest News

    Blog

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act First Amendment

    Can the city manager demand political cartoons removed from senior center?

    […] When asked, the City Manager responded that this is not a violation of the Brown Act because this was material posted in a city owned building, and government code section 54954.3 (c) of the Brown Act does not apply. Is this the case? What are the senior’s rights on this issue? It seems to […]

    November 18, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment

    In Texas, town hall meeting nixed videotaping

    Is there an equivalent of a Brown Act for Texas? I was at a Congressional town hall meeting, and a member of the Congresswoman's staff told me I was not allowed to video record the meeting. Is that legal?

    August 1, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Who is allowed to sit in on closed sessions regarding hiring?

    […] CEO'S Office. While this may be legal it is very troublesome because of power the current CEO wields with the Board of Supervisors. She may want her anointed one. Is there Brown Act laws which would preclude the CEO from being present during these interviews? Or would we be reliant on the local counties ordinances.

    December 31, 2010

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Board member shared confidential information after closed session

    […] am finishing out the school year. However, within a week of this decision, made and executed during a closed session, I learned from two different reliable sources that two Board members had shared this decision with at least three different staff members. What are my rights? What, if any, course of action can I take?

    September 9, 2016

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    How do we enforce the Brown Act?

    […] the District Attorney to prosecute violations as misdemeanors. Govt. Code section 54959. The other is by way of private enforcement actions brought as civil lawsuits by individuals. Government Code section 54960. Such private actions may be brought to declare actions taken in violation of the Brown Act null and void, or to declare that […]

    December 22, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Public comment time limit changed without notice

    […] that we would be given up to three minutes to speak. Right before public comments were heard, the chair said we’d be given only two minutes without any explanation. It says in the agenda he can change the time with no cause.  Is this a violation of the Brown Act and what is our remedy?

    September 7, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Labor negotiations and the Brown Act

    […] Brown Act for certain employee evaluations.  This "personnel exception" permits closed sessions to "consider the appointment, employment, evaluation of performance, discipline, or dismissal of a public employee."  Government Code 54957(b)(1).   However, section 54957(b)(4) further provides: "Closed sessions . . . shall not include discussion or action on proposed compensation except for a reduction of […]

    June 14, 2009