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Tag: California Brown Act
How to sabotage California’s Public Records Act
Opinion from Peter Scheer, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition.
If you were looking for a way to sabotage America’s freedom-of-information laws, you couldn’t do much better than a legal strategy being pursued by government entities in two California towns.
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Little-known public record case has far-reaching ramifications
Commentary from Jim Newton at the L.A. Times:
The ability of Californians to scrutinize their government may rest on the outcome of a little-known case unfolding in a tiny Northern California town.
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San Diego County invokes state suspension of meetings law
From U-T San Diego:
On July 24, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors reaffirmed its commitment to open meetings, unanimously agreeing to follow the state’s Ralph M. Brown Act even though the state had suspended the law to save money.
Chairman Ron Roberts mocked the state for its dysfunction.
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Supervisors sued by San Diegans for Open Government
California State Legislature moves to strengthen open government
Master lease for L.A. Coliseum faces pending state approval, lawsuit
Bill would make California public records easier to search
Open government resolution passes 5-0 in Solana Beach
NFOIC’s State FOIA Friday for July 27, 2012
A few state FOIA and local open government news items selected from many of interest that we might or might not have drawn attention to earlier in the week:
San Diego County supervisors poised to uphold open meeting law, despite state action
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