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    Short Takes: government email, historical police records, fee awards against requesters

    […] Federal Records Act amendment which addresses this question: Suppose a federal employee, using his own personal text or email account, sends a message that is clearly about government business? The Federal Records Act amendment, at section 2911, says that the employee is now required either to copy "an official electronic messaging account . . […]

    January 21, 2015

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    Gmail Nation: The Privatization of Public Records and Public Access

    By DAVID SNYDER—The California Supreme Court ruled last month that records stored on government officials’ personal email accounts are subject to the California Public Records Act. This answer seems obvious: government officials should not be able to conceal otherwise public records by simply using Gmail. And yet the law has been surprisingly slow to […]

    April 25, 2017

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    FAC Sues Bakersfield For Open Meetings, Records Violations

    […] asserting the city had not violated the law. The city also failed to produce the documents FAC requested. The FAC-Cal Aware lawsuit followed. "The public can’t hold their government accountable unless they know what their government is doing," Snyder said. "We’re going to make sure they do." +++ Attorney Kelly Aviles of Los Angeles is […]

    December 22, 2017

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    Can local legislators speak freely to voters? The answer should be an emphatic “yes.” Too often the answer given is “maybe.”

    BY PETER SCHEER--Local government, Republicans and Democrats agree, is the most democratic (with a small d) form of government. The closer government is to the people, the theory goes, the more accountable it is to voters and the more responsive to the public will. Congress is the most remote, hence least accountable; your local […]

    December 16, 2014

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    Brown Act

    Special Meetings and Means of Notice

    […] participate in a conference call. The meeting was not called because the General Manager (that will be replaced) replied with this information via the district's attorney: "The Brown Act requires actual,written notice to all 5 Board members in order to call a special meeting." Does the Brown Act prevent a board from holding a […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Brown Act Rules About Late Night Meeting

    […] general circulation, radio station or television station that has in writing requested notice. The notice must also be posted in a location freely accessible to the public. Government Code section 54956. The notice must specify the time and place of the special meeting and the business to be discussed. Only the business specified for […]

    April 9, 2018

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    CPRA

    District won’t release legal bills from defending workers’ comp cases

    My client has a worker's compensation case with the school district and made a public records act request in order to determine how much the school district is spending in her case and in total for legal defense of workers' compensation matters. It is our belief that the attorney is not settling cases for […]

    October 22, 2010

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    Brown Act

    Does the CA legislature have an open meeting law?

    It seems like neither the Brown Act nor Bagley-Keene applies to the CA legislature. What law governs the process through which the CA legislature, including committees, considers laws and informs the public of opportunity to comment at hearings. And are there laws that prevent a committee for adding a last-minute amendment (without notice) to […]

    December 17, 2014