Opposing Bill to Expand Meeting Secrecy
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by Terry Francke, General Counsel | Dec 19, 2012 | 2012, Activities, Legislation, Open Government, Open Meetings | 0 |
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Read Moreby Terry Francke, General Counsel | Aug 1, 2012 | 2012, Awareness Area: Government, Legal Issue: Freedom of Speech, Legal Issue: Freedom of the Press, Legislation, News, Open Government | 0 |
Some bad ideas are so irresponsible they might as well be intentionally destructive, and some pieces of legislation are prime examples of this sorry fact. Take Senator Dianne Feinstein’s anti-leak provisions in the current...
Read Moreby Terry Francke, General Counsel | Mar 26, 2012 | 2012, Activities, Free Speech/Press, Legislation | 0 |
SESSION: 2012 INFORMATION: SB 999 (La Malfa) would eliminate the current two year statute of limitations to bring a damages lawsuit for the unauthorized commercial use of a person’s name, signature, photograph, or likeness...
Read Moreby Terry Francke, General Counsel | Mar 26, 2012 | 2012, Activities, Free Speech/Press, Legislation | 0 |
SESSION: 2012 INFORMATION: AB 1270 (Ammiano) would restore the ability of journalists to conduct prearranged interviews and exchange confidential correspondence with particular state prison inmates, and to do so using pens,...
Read Moreby Terry Francke, General Counsel | Mar 26, 2012 | 2012, Activities, Legislation, Public Records/Information | 0 |
SESSION: 2012 INFORMATION: SB 1336 (Yee) would require disclosure of the results of investigations into improper governmental activity by the State Auditor’s office, by California State University investigators and by city...
Read Moreby Terry Francke, General Counsel | Mar 26, 2012 | 2012, Activities, Legislation, Public Records/Information | 0 |
SESSION: 2012 INFORMATION: SB 1002 (Yee) would authorize a state or local agency, when requested by a person, to provide an electronic record in a format in which the text in the electronic record is searchable by commonly used...
Read Moreby Terry Francke, General Counsel | Mar 26, 2012 | 2012, Activities, Legislation, Public Records/Information | 0 |
SESSION: 2012 INFORMATION: SB 1001 (Yee) would amend the 1974 Political Reform Act (PRA) to increase the maximum amount of this fee to $50 per year to support technology updating for the Cal-Access website. The current PRA...
Read Moreby Terry Francke, General Counsel | Mar 26, 2012 | 2012, Activities, Legislation, Public Records/Information | 0 |
SESSION: 2012 INFORMATION: SB 1000 (Yee) would subject an order or recommendation made by the commission and any accident report filed with the commission pursuant to these requirements to the California Public Records Act,...
Read Moreby Terry Francke, General Counsel | Mar 26, 2012 | 2012, Activities, Legislation, Public Records/Information | 0 |
SESSION: 2012 INFORMATION: AB 1730 (Olsen) would require the Assembly and the Senate Rules Committees to provide each legislator with a monthly report of his or her office budget, and would require the legislator to publish the...
Read Moreby Terry Francke, General Counsel | Mar 26, 2012 | 2012, Activities, Legislation, Public Records/Information | 0 |
SESSION: 2012 INFORMATION: AB 1541 (Dickinson) would subject an order or recommendation made by the commission and any accident report filed with the commission pursuant to these requirements to the California Public Records...
Read Moreby Terry Francke, General Counsel | Mar 26, 2012 | 2012, Activities, Legislation, Public Records/Information | 0 |
SESSION: 2012 INFORMATION: AB 1440 (Perea) would require each county child welfare agency, within 60 calendar days of determining that abuse or neglect led to a child’s death in the county, as described, to review the...
Read Moreby Terry Francke, General Counsel | Mar 26, 2012 | 2012, Activities, Legislation, Public Records/Information | 0 |
SESSION: 2012 INFORMATION: AB 1275 (Torres) would prohibit disclosure of “any portion of a 911 emergency telephone call providing medical or personal identifying information.” The bill does not expressly repeal, but would...
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