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Brown Act and statute of limitations

Does an action requesting purely equitable (injunctive) relief for a Brown Act violation have a statute of limitations?

June 14, 2009
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Brown Act

Entities meeting in a closed “workshop” setting

[…] setting" because the workshop was very likely a "meeting" under the Brown Act. The board, however, should have allowed public comment before voting on the "options." California Government Code section 54954.3 provides that members of the public be given the opportunity to comment "before or during the legislative body's consideration of the item." By […]

June 14, 2009
Handbooks

Guide to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act

The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act is the public meetings law that applies to California state boards, committees, and commissions.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Meetings
September 10, 2024
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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 […]
- Public Meetings
- Public Records
August 10, 2009
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Press Rights

Governor Brown decides fate of open-government bills

The Richard McKee Brown Act enforcement bill wasn’t the only open- government legislation to come before Governor Brown at the end of this legislative session. Here’s what happened with the bills that FAC has been tracking this year: AB 1270: Governor Brown vetoed this bill that would have allowed journalists greater ability to request […]
October 12, 2012
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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 […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
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 […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
October 6, 2016
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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 […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
September 17, 2021
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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, […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
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 […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009