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  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment

    How do we respond to government harassment of our protest?

    We had some 15 protesters on a public passage that is a footpath over a major frwy. A   government entity kept harassing us during our protest. We hung large signs over the frwy as these overpasses have metal grids fencing. This in turn slowed but did not impede or block or obstruct moving […]

    September 18, 2013

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    CPRA

    Council-elect make decisions, but claim documents are not public

    […] agency; or entities that are legislative bodies of a local agency pursuant to subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 54952."Gov't Code section 6252(a). Section 54952(c) of the Government Code defines a "legislative body" as: (1) A board, commission, committee, or other multimember body that governs a private corporation, limited liability company, or other entity […]

    October 21, 2010

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Defining “action taken” and sufficiently describing agenda items

    We believe based on a published Attorney General's Opinion that the Brown Act applies to student governments at community colleges. Our student government, which distributes about $1.3 million per year in student fees, seems to consistently violate the Brown Act, particularly with respect to notice of its intended actions. Specifically, while our student government […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Co-op non-profits

    […] a general rule, open meeting laws (such as the most commonly-applied, the Brown Act, which governs the public's access to meetings of local agencies), only apply to government agencies.  The only private entity subject to the Brown Act is a "board, commission, committee or other multimember body that governs a private corporation or entity […]

    June 14, 2009

  • Latest News

    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

  • Posts

    First Amendment

    FAC news: Prop 42 victory, amicus briefs on the Wrap, NCAA, fee waivers & more

    […] and sponsored Prop 42 to end funding disputes between local governments and the state that have given local governments a legal excuse to opt out of open- government laws. Prop 42, by clarifying that cities and counties are responsible for the (modest) costs of conducting their affairs in accord with open-government laws, ends those […]

    June 17, 2014

  • Latest News

    Blog

    Woodward’s “leaked” Aghanistan report was declassified. How could that happen without Obama’s OK?

    […] weekend to withhold brief portions of the assessment that they said could compromise future operations. A declassified version of the document, with some deletions made at the government's request, appears at washingtonpost.com. " Now, it's not unheard-of for government officials to be given an advance look at a Woodward blockbuster so they can have […]

    September 23, 2009

  • Latest News

    Cases Press Release

    Victory in the Ninth Circuit for FAC and for Government Transparency

    […] of drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad. In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit held that FAC is entitled to have the government pay FAC’s attorneys’ fees for its five-year legal battle with DOJ over the release of the so-called Drone Memos. "The Ninth Circuit’s decision is a vindication […]

    August 25, 2017

  • Latest News

    Blog

    Transcript: Protest & Pushback

    […] conversation about racial justice, and possibly the country, forever. A new generation of activists exercised their right to peaceably assemble, to speak out and to petition the government. The right to record police gained new importance. Videos of troubling — and sometimes fatal — encounters with Black people fueled demands to end systemic racism […]

    December 6, 2021

  • Latest News

    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