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Posted by Terry Francke, General Counsel | May 3, 2019 | Awareness Area: Government, Legal Issue: Open Meetings, Uncategorized |
A bill recently approved by the Assembly Local Government Committee would allow majorities of city councils, boards of supervisors, school boards, planning commissions, special district boards and most of the related committees...
Read MorePosted by Terry Francke, General Counsel | May 2, 2019 | Awareness Area: Government, Legal Issue: Public Information |
A bill moving quickly through the Assembly would revive an optional remedy for wrongfully denied access to California state agencies’ records—administrative review and determination rather than litigation—that was first...
Read MorePosted by Terry Francke, General Counsel | May 1, 2019 | CalAware in the News |
The late Richard P. McKee, co-founder in 2004 and first President of Californians Aware, was honored by open government activists nationwide among four “Heroes of the 50 States” by the National Freedom of Information Coalition...
Read MorePosted by Terry Francke, General Counsel | Mar 27, 2019 | Awareness Area: Government, Legal Issue: Public Information, News, Uncategorized |
By JW August, journalist and Past President of Californians Aware A widely criticized effort by San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott and State Senator Ben Hueso to weaken California’s open records law recently went down in...
Read MorePosted by Terry Francke, General Counsel | Mar 13, 2019 | News, Uncategorized |
Ten ways you can advance your rights to know, speak, write and publish about issues that matter—where you live You don’t have to be a lawyer, lobbyist or policy wonk to make improvements in how open your city council, county...
Read MoreCalAware Members can use our Solicitation of Service (SOS) form to describe their legal problem and request an attorney’s response regarding representation or other services, and have that request sent in an individual email to every attorney in the Directory, setting a deadline for response.
