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 MoreOn the eve of a crucial legislative committee decision on bills that would shed light for the first time on complaints and investigations into alleged police violence and sexual assaults—and on the related standards, policies...
Read MoreBy JW August, journalist and Past President of Californians Aware Google on the phrase “politicians intimidating journalists” and you’ll be reminded how routine the phenomenon is in countries with no First Amendment but a Strong...
Read MoreIn approving the 2018-2019 state budget last week, Governor Brown incidentally gave local government employee unions the right to rush new hires for membership at meetings kept secret from the public. That’s an important and...
Read MoreAs noted in the previous post, the recently enacted AB 1455 of 2017 exempts from disclosure under the California Public Records Act (CPRA) all documentation of a city’s, county’s or special district’s process in collective...
Read MoreA spectacularly self-dealing former Poway Unified School District superintendent pled guilty last week—but to only a misdemeanor, reports Ashly McGlone of Voice of San Diego. Among other exercises in undue enrichment reported...
Read MoreThe Problem Governor Brown has signed a bill that will allow cities, counties and special districts to keep their rationales for granting pay and benefit increases secret—not just during their negotiations with employee...
Read MoreCalifornians Aware yesterday asked the author of AB 1455 to add provisions requiring cities, counties and special districts—and their employee unions— to inform the public and invite comment, at key stages of their labor...
Read MoreThe Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, on a 5-2 party line split, approved denial of public access to all local government records documenting bargaining with employee unions for wages, benefits and conditions of employment—not...
Read MoreA bill up for its last policy committee hearing next week would permanently exempt from disclosure under the California Public Records Act the entire paper trail of most local agency bargaining with employee unions. And only...
Read MoreCalifornians Aware has announced its opposition to Assembly Bill 1455 by Assemblymember Raul Bocanegra (D-San Fernando), which would exempt from public disclosure under the California Public Records Act all records of what a...
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...
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