OPEN MEETINGS Judge agrees with LA Times, CalAware: Coliseum Commission repeatedly violated open meeting law PUBLIC RECORDS CalAware, Orange County online news center ask high court relief from county’s invited gag order OPEN...
Read MoreOPEN GOVERNMENT CalAware’s proposed Plan B to save the Brown Act and the Public Records Act to go before the voters Sunlight’s new list has 32 pointers for local/state governments on “proactive disclosure” policies FREE PRESS...
Read MoreThere are two serious but reparable shortcomings in SCA 3, the Legislature’s attempt at a comprehensive elimination of the threat of mandate suspensions of the open government laws. The addition of a simple, outcome-neutral set...
Read MoreAs it turned out, the Legislature and Governor backed away Friday from their proposal to suspend the enforceability of certain key provisions of the California Public Records Act, thanks to an unprecedented wave of protest from...
Read MoreAn unsigned single-sheet list of “talking points” attributed to California Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg is circulating just below the public surface, in response to a wave of unprecedented criticism...
Read MoreThe California Public Records Act (CPRA) is based on the fundamental principle that the public has a right to public documents. Passed into law in 1968, it has been a part of our lives for so long that it’s easy to take it for...
Read MoreThe consensus package of state budget tradeoffs emerging from wrangling by the Governor and Legislature in recent days has some losses for open government but, depending on which access rights one uses more, some gains that may...
Read MoreSome notes on two pending legislative measures that would amend the Brown Act and its prescription for transparency in local government agency meetings, plus a third that would add sunshine to how the Legislature itself does its...
Read MoreWhat if California government agencies no longer had to let you know within 10 days how much of the public record information you’d asked for would be provided, if any? Or tell you what law allowed them to withhold it?...
Read MoreWhile the names of those who get—or even apply for—permits to carry concealed weapons are matters of public record in California and would stay that way under the recently introduced Assembly Bill 134, the bill by freshman...
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