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    Brown Act

    Getting information from closed sessions

    As a preliminary matter, it is not clear why your Board would have cited Government Code section 54956.9.  Section 54956.9 provides for closed sessions to discuss pending litigation, and does not apply to either of the items you listed in your inquiry. With regard to the first item, public employee discipline/dismissal/release, the Brown Act […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Can An Agency Extend Response to a CPRA Request Up to Eight Weeks Due to Covid?

    […] seeks disclosable public records, the agency shall state the estimated date and time when the records will be made available.") In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, some government agencies in California have stopped processing requests made under the CPRA. The First Amendment Coalition takes the position that there is no legal basis for that […]

    April 21, 2022

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    Police Records

    How Can I Access Florida Police Body-Camera Videos?

    […] me on how to get police body-worn camera videos from a Florida law enforcement agency that have not been provided in response to a freedom of information act. Nor were they included in discovery for a criminal case. I believe there is damning evidence on the video of police misconduct, obstruction of justice, malicious […]

    June 7, 2021

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    Brown Act

    Councilmembers May Have Met Privately to Agree on Vote Outcome

    […] the Council working together in private to agree to pass legislation without public access. I am running for officer in November against this councilmember and if she and other Councilmembers violated the Act, the voters have a right to know about that. If you can give me any feedback on this, I would appreciate it.

    November 6, 2018

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    Brown Act

    COVID-19 Prohibition On Public Gatherings Prevented Me From Speaking to the Public

    […] Act. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation. No attorney-client relationship has been formed by way of this response.

    January 20, 2021

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    Why Support FAC?

    […] available and enforced for everyone, irrespective of wealth, politics or access to power. Every day, FAC’s team of First Amendment experts fight for these protections and for government transparency on multiple fronts, bringing our decades of experience to bear by using our model of integrated advocacy—litigation, public education, and policy advocacy—to attack violations of […]

    July 20, 2024

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    Press Release

    FAC, ACLU Sue City of Fresno for Open Meetings Law Violation

    […] negotiated the city’s annual budget behind closed doors, violating California’s law on open public meetings and depriving the people of their fundamental right to transparency in local government. The City’s proposed budget is then typically rubber-stamped by the City Council. For example, during Fresno’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget process, the Budget Committee — composed […]

    November 15, 2023

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    Blog

    Journalists must be allowed to do their jobs while government officials do theirs

    The homelessness crisis is one of the biggest issues facing California. To understand the human toll of housing insecurity and to assess the efficacy of government response, we depend on journalists to sort fact from fiction. And to bear witness when governments take action. That is especially true when it comes to sweeps of […]

    September 17, 2024

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    Blog

    The connection between drone strikes and massive government surveillance programs

    First came news accounts of the government’s use of armed drones in the targeted killing of terrorists abroad. Then came the revelations about government surveillance programs, breathtaking in their scale, tapping into data on phone calls, emails, internet searches and more. These activities are, in fact, linked. The use of drones to target America’s […]

    June 8, 2013