Public Records Laws
Recall Committee files third complaint re Old Guard Brown Act violations in less than a month
Feb 10, 2008
Complaint #3 re Brown Act Violations; Improper February 11, 2008 Meeting Agenda
Tom Russell, CUSD Recall Committee Spokesperson
Dear Trustees Benecke, Draper, Darnold and Stiff:
The purpose of this letter is to demand that you postpone and remove from the February 11, 2008 Board Agenda Items No. 37 – 41 relating to the construction of several multi-million dollar construction projects at the $150,000,000 San Juan Hills High School. For the reasons set forth below, taking action on these items would constitute a knowing and intentional violation of the California Public Records Act, the Brown Act and other applicable laws requiring competitive bidding. Read More...
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California’s shadow government
Mar 16, 2006
A watchdog group tests state agencies’ compliance
with open-records law; many fail
Editorial, The Orange County
Register This is Sunshine Week
– observed not to celebrate our weather but to
focus attention on the rights of citizens to have
ready access to public records. Unfortunately,
like our overcast skies in recent days, not that
much sunshine has been breaking through the
operations of government.
A report released Tuesday by Californians Aware, a group that defends citizens’ rights to examine government, found that almost every state agency it examined failed to comply with state full-disclosure laws. Read More...
A report released Tuesday by Californians Aware, a group that defends citizens’ rights to examine government, found that almost every state agency it examined failed to comply with state full-disclosure laws. Read More...
CUSD Systematically and Fraudulently Violates the California Public Records Act
Mar 07, 2006
CUSD
routinely withholds public record information in
violation of the California Public Records Act from
citizens who request such information. CUSD appears
to apply a double standard in its treatment of public
records requests, favoring requests from the media
and discriminating against requests from the general
public. It’s not unusual for CUSD to provide next day
service to members of the media, while members of the
general public often wait weeks or months for the
same information. Read
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