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Q:  I experienced an incident at a meeting of my county board of supervisors. Upon addressing the Board for my allotted three minutes, a district supervisor interrupted me, commenting about previous issues I’d raised about county agencies. I am of the understanding that Supervisors are not allowed to publicly comment on matters raised during the public comment period as those matters are not posted upon the Board’s agenda that is required to be publicly noticed at least

Q:  I made some CPRA requests to our school district. They are refusing to release the records. How do I file a complaint? A:  When an agency fails to provide requested records that you believe are subject to public disclosure, Government Code section 6259 allows you to file a lawsuit. Lawsuits to enforce the CPRA are usually initiated by a verified petition (i.e., a request filed under oath) that asks the court to issue a

Q: The Chair of the Board of Directors for the Fire Protection District wrote a letter which was published in a local newspaper. In that letter he made public, for the first time, the existence of a report the District had received from a private legal firm. He also made public some of the contents of the report. His exact text was, “This very expensive legal report states that each of these citations are either misinterpreted,