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    Brown Act CPRA

    The Brown Act and non-government youth organizations

    As a general rule, the Brown and Public Records Acts only apply to government agencies.  Since the name of the organization is Santa Maria Girls Softball, Inc., it sounds like it is a private entity and not a governmental agency. The only private entity subject to the Brown Act is a "board, commission, committee […]

    June 14, 2009

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    First Amendment

    Can peaceful picketing be stopped by the event’s promoter?

    […] matter, the private entity could not force you off the public property.  If I’m understanding your inquiry correctly, it may be that a private organization, not the government, is attempting to restrict your speech, and may be attempting to get an order from the courts to achieve this goal.  The inquiry is highly fact-specific, […]

    March 18, 2015

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    CPRA

    Private institutions, public funds and the CPRA

    […] records of state or local agencies.  Under certain circumstances outlined in section 54952(c) of the Brown Act (incorporated into the PRA by section 6252 of the PRA), entities that are legislative bodies of a local agency may be subject to the PRA.     Section 54952(c) defines "legislative body" as:"(c) (1) A board, commission, committee, or […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Bagley-Keene Act Brown Act

    Are Community College Faculty Senate meetings covered by the Brown Act?

    […] give you may be "maybe." Community Colleges are state entities, rather than local governmental entities, and thus the open meeting law potentially applicable is the Bagley-Keene Act, Government Code sections 11120-11132. The Bagley-Keene Act applies to "state bodies," which defines as "every state board, or commission, that is created by statute or required by […]

    January 30, 2012

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    CPRA Newsgathering

    Should complaints against belligerent councilman be public?

    […] is limited to the information whose disclosure would be an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. Where public records relate to verified misconduct on the part of a government employee or official, the public’s interest in learning about the misconduct and the government’s handling of it is generally given great weight and the individual’s personal […]

    August 19, 2011

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    Brown Act

    Does the Brown Act cover a committee made up of two agencies with two members each?

    […] unilaterally. However, as one court later said, a legislative body such as "a city council may designate some of its members to meet with representatives of other entities" outside the city "to exchange information and report back to the council without falling under the Brown Act," as long as the designated members are less […]

    August 22, 2025

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    Blog

    The dark side of ‘sunshining’ government data online

    […] sets becoming available, and entrepreneurs building thousands of innovative applications. Then the ill-considered race to slash the Federal deficit started. The Obama Administration agreed to cut e- government initiative funding from $35 million to $8 million. Never mind that Kundra’s programs had already saved taxpayers $3 billion over the past two years. But were […]

    June 29, 2011

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    Blog

    The “deliberative process privilege” is dead or, at best, on life support

    […] have been. By Peter Scheer The chairman of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, Bill Postmus, refuses to make public his calendar of meetings and other government events. This refusal takes no small amount of chutzpah, since Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger regularly releases his calendars, as have all other statewide elected officials. Postmus is […]

    June 2, 2009