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Atherton: Open government advocate persists in suit after rebuff by district attorney

donal brown March 18, 2010

An open government advocate is suing the Sequoia Union High School District to force them to decide on a personnel policy item in open meeting. The local district attorney sided with the school district in holding that  the vote behind closed doors was legal. -db The Almanac March 17, 2010 By Dave Boyce The district attorney will not go to battle for Peter Carpenter, the open-government crusader and Atherton resident, who is trying to force

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Tulare County: Supervisors challenged in court test on open government compliance

donal brown March 15, 2010

An open government advocate is suing the Tulare County Board of Supervisors to prevent them from holding luncheons with a voting majority present. -db Visalia Times-Delta March 12, 2010 By Valerie Gibbons An open-meeting watchdog has filed a lawsuit against the Tulare County Board of Supervisors in an effort to end supervisors’ practice of sharing meals when a voting majority is present. Richard McKee, from the Southern California city of La Verne, is asking a

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Bay Area transit district to webcast its board meetings

donal brown March 14, 2010

The Bay Area Rapid Transit voted to post its board meetings live on the web. The decision was made after criticism that the district was not responsive to the community following a BART policeman’s fatal shooting of an unarmed passenger. -db San Jose Mercury News March 12, 2010 By Denis Cuff More than a year after an uproar over a police officer’s fatal shooting of an unarmed passenger spurred the BART board to call for

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Transparency: S.F. mayor wants texting banned during city meetings

donal brown March 11, 2010

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wants a ban on text messaging during meetings of the Board of Supervisors and city commissions to limit the influence of  lobbyists texting city officials and to keep the city government more transparent. -db San Francisco Chronicle March 10, 2010 By Heather Knight San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to push the off button on the trend of text messaging during meetings of the Board of Supervisors and various city

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Editorial calls for Placer County District Attorney to enforce state’s open government law

donal brown March 8, 2010

The Auburn Journal argued for tighter enforcement of the Brown Act, California’s open government law, in light of a $l600 dinner meeting in 2008  in Washington D.C. during which three county supervisors lobbied the local congressman. -db Auburn Journal Editorial March 7, 2010 During these tough economic times, government at every level faces media scrutiny. The public has a right to know how elected officials are spending taxpayer dollars. That’s why it’s especially troubling that

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