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Brown Act

Does the Brown Act require meeting minutes?

The High School District board stopped taking minutes at their meetings? Can they do that under the Brown Act?

April 13, 2015
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Brown Act

Can A Public Official Interrupt A Speaker During Public Comment Time?

[…] the Supervisor's outburst seemed to me to be an attempt discredit my very valid comments. In addition, it is my perception the Supervisor's outburst was to intimidate me from any further public comment regarding the subject. Can you offer me any assistance whether such actions by the Supervisor have violated in anyway the Brown Act?

May 30, 2018
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Brown Act

Posting agendas and notification of action in special/closed sessions

A School Board is subject to the Brown Act yet a principal was dismissed without cause after a Special meeting /closed session in which no one was notified nor was it posted at the site where the meeting was held (it was posted on a website) nor has the decision been posted for the ten […]

June 14, 2009
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Tracy case tests the power of government officials to avoid disclosure of their emails on public business

[…] By Peter Scheer Those enterprising members of the Tracy City Council have come up with a strategy to hide from public view all their written communications about government business. With a bit of legal legerdemain, they claim to be able to evade state open-government laws, transforming their communications from public records into private correspondence. […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
June 2, 2009
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Secrecy surrounding public employees’ pay & benefits makes mockery of democracy

BY PETER SCHEER---Local officials talk a good game about government transparency and accountability. And while city council members and county supervisors often go through the motions of conducting official business in an open and public way, on the biggest, most costly and consequential issues that come before them---issues that dwarf all others by orders […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 24, 2015
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Leak investigation of Fox News’ Rosen crosses red line by obtaining journalist’s email contents, not just data

[…] Rosen, a reporter for Fox News. The criticism has focused on the revelation, contained in a 2010 FBI affidavit used to obtain a search warrant, that the government then viewed Rosen not merely as a witness, someone who possessed evidence about the source of a national security leak, but as an indictable law-breaker. Rosen's […]
- Press Freedom
May 29, 2013
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In taping a reporter, AG Brown’s spokesman showed bad judgment, but did he break the law?

BY PETER SCHEER --- Attorney General Jerry Brown's spokesman Scott Gerber was unceremoniously "disappeared" from Brown's incipient gubernatorial campaign this week because of a lapse in judgment that, quite frankly, has been overblown. Gerber's mistake: to surreptitiously record a phone conversation with a reporter, which was later discovered because Gerber, in a plea for […]

November 4, 2009
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For Sunshine Week, CFAC to lead LA discussion on national security and 1st Amendment

Discussion on Open Government will follow L.A. Theatre Works March 13 Production of Pentagon Papers Docudrama California First Amendment Coalition Director Peter Scheer to Lead Panel Washington — Sunshine Week will host a discussion on open government and secrecy issues following a Thursday, March 13, L.A. Theatre Works production of "Top Secret: The Battle […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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Court rules CA counties must disclose pension amounts paid to government retirees

[…] has ruled that county governments, upon request, must disclose--by name--their retirees' pension payments. The Superior Court for Stanislaus County reasoned that the public interest in access to government employees' pensions outweighs the public interest in protecting the confidentiality of that information. In 2007 the California Supreme Court ruled that government employees' salaries--including employee names--are […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
November 6, 2009
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CPRA

City Clerk’s obligation to the CPRA

[…] your question to be whether the City Clerk has the obligation to comply with requests for public records in accordance with the California Public Records Act, California Government Code sections 6250 et seq.If my understanding is accurate, the answer is yes, the City Clerk must comply with the Act. The California Public Records Act […]

June 14, 2009