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    Brown Act

    Is public college “executive board” subject to Brown Act?

    […] seven or so members (including the president, vice president, etc.) of the Academic Senate. The Executive Board meets regularly and the Academic Senate bylaws state the meeting must be open to the public. The overall consensus of the Executive Board is that the meeting should be open to the public. (This issue was brought […]

    May 22, 2013

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    Slideshow presentation during public comment at school board meeting

    […] a substantial burden in justifying any content-based restrictions on speech of members of the public during the public comment portion of the meeting.  Any limitations on content must be shown to be necessary to serve a compelling state interest, and must be narrowly tailored to achieve that goal.  See, e.g., Leventhal v. Vista Unified […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Regional Centers and the CPRA

    Are the roughly 21 private non-profit corporations known as Regional Centers (effectively created by the Lanterman Act)  that operate under contract with the Department of Development Services, subject to the Brown Act, and thus, to the CPRA?

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Teacher terminated after closed session

    […] weekend our son's 4th grade teacher was fired from her "at will" employment at a local charter school. The board held a Regular Meeting and decided "immediate action" had to be taken. The teacher did not receive 24 hours notice about the meeting but was asked if she wanted to speak for five minutes […]

    October 20, 2011

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    Brown Act

    What meetings are governed by CA Proposition 54?

    Does CA Proposition 54 cover bodies like county Human Rights Commissions? Mine is trying to say that they are exempt from the requirement to make an audio recording of meetings because: "The Commission doesn’t have the power to vote or passing laws." I'm told they are just an advisory group to the Board of Supervisors but […]

    June 6, 2017

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Emails and the Public Record and Brown Act

    A member of a public board has been carrying on an email conversation with me about matters before the board, copying all the other members of the board on his messages to me.  Is this email thread (1) a public record, and (2) a violation of the Brown Act?

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Appointing board members and the Brown Act

    […] ("Brown Act") open meeting provisions.  However, even if it is subject to the Brown Act, the Brown Act does not address the organization or composition of legislative bodies nor does it address the election/nomination of its members, and I am not aware of any other California statutes that might apply.  Such organizational issues are […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Vote YES on Prop 42 if you value open-government. Vote no if you prefer secrecy.

    Prop 42, on the ballot for California's June 4 election, will amend the Constitution to assure that local governments are legally bound to observe open- government requirements. If you prefer transparency to secrecy in your city government, local school board or county government, then the choice is clear: You should vote for Prop 42. […]

    May 13, 2014

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    Most Wanted Secret Doc: Justice Dept Memo Analyzing Drone Strikes Against Suspected Terrorists

    […] now. First are Mitt Romney's undisclosed tax returns. You already know about those. The other is a classified legal memorandum, prepared by the Justice Department, analyzing the government's legal authority to conduct targeted killings of terrorists abroad-including, specifically, terrorists who are U.S. citizens. Interest in this memo intensified following a 2011 drone strike in […]

    August 27, 2012