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 MoreA bill soon to be considered in a final hearing in the Assembly Appropriations Committee would mean that local agencies that have enacted COIN ordinances (to provide more transparency to its bargaining with employee unions)...
Read MoreIn a lawsuit brought to overturn an unlawfully secret decision by a city council under the Brown Act, the city may not have provided a sufficient “cure and correction” to end the case if all it did was re-hear the...
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Read MoreAn unpublished decision by the Second District Court of Appeal concludes that without evidence of actual confusion in the public, a posted agenda that states the public’s right to address the body in general but also...
Read MoreGarth Stapley reports for the Modesto Bee that Stanislaus County’s nine mayors have been breaking the law by informally gathering to plan a countywide growth initiative, according to Californians Aware’s general...
Read MoreCalifornians Aware will not pursue its Brown Act lawsuit against the San Diego County Board of Supervisors after the Board today rescinded its action taken early last month immediately to approve a number of recommendations from...
Read MoreThe California Court of Appeal has declined requests to publish its recent opinion concluding that the Brown Act was not violated by the Montebello City Council in denying public comment before holding a closed session with...
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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