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California: Orange County water district drops closed session on negotiations with desal company

donal brown May 15, 2012

Amid a dispute over whether negotiations over the price of water from a proposed desalination plant can be held in a closed session, the Municipal Water District of Orange County dropped the item from the agenda of their May 15 meeting. Opponents of the plant raised questions about whether water rights were real property held by the desal company so that negotiations over the rights were exempt from the open meeting requirement under the Brown

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California: Disturbing lack of transparency in firing Atwater superintendent

donal brown May 14, 2012

By a 3-2 vote the trustees of the Atwater Elementary School District fired the district superintendent, Melinda Hennes,  without explanation. Hennes had been on the job for seven years and recently received a favorable evaluation from the trustees. The trustees owe the public an explanation not only for the firing but also how the three reached the decision to fire Hennes without any official meeting time, argues the Merced Sun-Star in an editorial. -db From

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California: Shasta courts admits error and releases records of 2400 criminal cases

donal brown May 10, 2012

At the insistence of The Redding Record Searchlight that records of some 2400 criminal cases were being withheld illegally, the Shasta County Superior Court finally examined their policy, found no basis for it and released the records. The court was withholding records of criminal cases involving arrest warrants. -db From The Redding Record Searchlight, May 8, 2012, by Sean Longoria. Full story

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California’s open meeting law allows memos from superintendents to school board with some caveats

donal brown May 10, 2012

Customary weekly memos from superintendents to school board members does not necessarily violate the Brown Act, the state’s open meeting law, provided that the memos avoid relaying the policy positions of board members, writes James Scot Yarnell in a legal analysis for Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo. -db From an analysis for the law corporation, Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo, May 8, 2012, by James Scot Yarnell. Full story

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