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California Supreme Court allows Tulare supervisors’ closed lunch meetings

donal brown February 27, 2012

The California Supreme Court denied the review of a case brought against the Tulare County Board of Supervisors for holding 30 plus lunchtime meetings behind closed doors. Open government advocate State Senator Leland Yee immediately declared his intention to introduce a law to outlaw such meetings. The supervisors claimed the meetings were unofficial, for morale-building only. -db From the California Newspaper Publishers Association, February 21, 2012. Full story    

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A&A: Which Meetings are Governed by the Brown Act? Bagley-Keen Act?

firstamendment June 13, 2009

Which Meetings are Governed by the Brown Act? Bagley-Keen Act? Q: Are relevant portions of the following meetings governed by the Brown Act (or the Bagley-Keen Act)?:  The board meetings of a nonprofit that a County Dept of Mental Health has contracted with to run a program which has been fully developed by the County Mental Health Department, when that board discusses such program?  The program was approved by the California Department of Mental Health

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A&A: Is a task force a “state body” under the Bagley-Keene Act?

firstamendment June 13, 2009

Is a task force a “state body” under the Bagley-Keene Act? Q: Caltrans is holding Highway Task Force meetings and it has been announced that these meetings will not be open to the public. I received the following reply from the Caltrans public affairs: Since this is not a public meeting, the task force meeting will be made up of 10 members from each community that the project affects.  The meeting is informal and does

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