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Tulare supervisor lunch lawsuit goes to California Supreme Court

donal brown January 10, 2012

The lawsuit over closed lunch meetings of the Tulare County Board of Supervisors is going to the California Supreme Court. The suit centered on 30 closed lunch meetings in 2009 during which at least a majority of the supervisors were present. The supervisors claimed they never discussed county business during the lunches. -db From the Visalia Times-Delta, January 10, 2012, written by Staff reports. Full story  

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California: Allegations that Patterson City Council violated state open meeting law

donal brown December 1, 2011

Jim Ewert of the California Newspaper Publisher Association said that the Patterson City Council violated the Brown Act, the state’s open meeting act, when it failed to provide the identity of those who voted in a closed session for an interim city attorney. Ewert said it did not matter that the rankings of candidates occurred during a discussion, that the public had the right to know who voted which way since the council reached a

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California public universities agree to transparency for foundations

donal brown May 26, 2011

California state universities have opened the door to transparency for campus foundations with a compromise with state Senator Leland Yee of San Francisco. The agreement will protect the privacy of most donors but allow disclosure of other financial details. The foundations and operations such as campus bookstores would operate under the California Public Records Act. The agreement came after last year’s dispute between Yee and other open government advocates with the foundation at the CSU Stanislaus who

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California: St. Helena council accused of holding illegal ‘serial meeting’

donal brown April 21, 2011

The California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA) is claiming that the St. Helena City Council violated the Brown Act, California’s open meeting act, when a town administrator sent a memo to council members of instructions to its Housing Subcommittee. In a series of e-mails, council members suggested changes to the instructions and approved them. Jesse Duarte in the St. Helena Star quoted Jim Ewert of the CNPA, “This is exactly the kind of back-room discussion that

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District Attorney looking into alleged open meeting violation by Rose Bowl officials

donal brown October 25, 2010

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office is investigating a compaint that the Rose Bowl Operating Company violated the Brown Act, California’s open meeting law, in failing to list an agenda item concerning  the financing of a $152 million stadium renovation. -db Pasadena Star-News October 22, 2010 By Brenda Gazzar Prosecutors said Friday they’ve opened a probe into an alleged Brown Act violation committed by the Rose Bowl Operating Company when the agency considered a $152

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