December 3, 2019 Dear CalAware Today Subscriber, I’m counting on you to help realize our growth fund and its capacity building goals by reaching out to the next generation. Thanks to your initial show of support we’ve been to...
Read MoreENVIRONMENT 300 farm parcels slated for condemnation to make way for Governor Brown’s Delta Tunnels water project SURVEILLANCE Why Stockton (and more than 60 other California cities) have ended the use of red light cameras;...
Read MoreAs of today, with Governor Brown’s emergency water consumption restrictions, the Legislature can no longer justify a law that keeps secret how much water is used by whom. In 1997, the Legislature quietly passed, with no...
Read MorePUBLIC INFORMATION Harmful, sometimes fatal hospital errors and infections in California now disclosed by NBC Bay Area investigative report online Real owners of California’s nursing homes and how the big chains perform revealed...
Read MoreThe California Public Records Act protects the use records of those—residents and businesses—who are customers of local governmental utilities like water districts and municipal utility districts. That makes it hard for the...
Read MoreThe Trans-Pacific Partnership is an international mega-trade agreement under development among the U.S. and a number of key nations of the Americas and Asia, negotiated entirely in secret and proposed to bypass close...
Read Moreby Warner Chabot This November, the California Coastal Commission listened to advice from Californians Aware and backed down on a controversial proposal to micromanage their senior staff. The twelve-member commission, appointed...
Read MoreBarely two weeks after the Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown abandoned a budgeting proposal to suspend a law requiring local government agencies to provide the public with access to their data in any computer format they keep...
Read MoreTim Crews, editor and publisher of the twice-weekly Sacramento Valley Mirror in Glenn County and recipient this past weekend of the 2013 Freedom of Information award of the California Newspaper Publishers Association, comments...
Read MoreIn what appears to be the first such ruling in the history of the Brown Act, an Orange County Superior Court judge has declared null and void an Anaheim City Council approval last year of a tax subsidy to a hotel developer worth...
Read MoreHow is $99.3 million in public funds being spent by private contrators to clean up the former Fort Ord for “re-use” by removing munitions and other explosives from the base? The Fort Ord Reuse Authority, a public...
Read MoreCalifornians Aware has filed suit against the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, challenging its decision at a meeting last month as a violation of the Ralph M. Brown Act, the state’s open meeting law for local...
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