Time to Bring California’s Open Meeting Law into the 21st Century
Peter Scheer
September 30, 2015
BY PETER SCHEER—-California’s open meeting law, the Brown Act, was enacted four decades before the arrival of the internet, a quarter century before the first commercial fax machines, and even a few years before “xerox” copying went mainstream. In all the years since, the Brown Act has been amended in ways big and small, but it has never been revised to tap the power of digital technology. Legislative bodies subject to the Brown Act operate