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CPPA board opens meeting, moves to closed session on senior appointments and litigation; welcomes new member
Summary
The California Privacy Protection Agency Board met March 6 in San Francisco, established a quorum, announced closed sessions to consider the appointment of an executive director and chief privacy auditor and to receive legal advice on litigation, and introduced new board member Dr. Brandy Nonakee.
Good afternoon. “Welcome to this meeting of the California Privacy Protection Agency Board,” Chair Jennifer Urban said as the board opened its March 6 meeting in San Francisco at about 2:08 p.m.
The board established a quorum with five members present and announced it would move into closed session under the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act to consider the appointment of an executive director and a chief privacy auditor and to receive legal advice related to active litigation. Urban said the board would recess overnight and resume public session at 9 a.m. the following day at the same location and Zoom link.
The closed-session announcement cited government code language as the authority for the executive-session discussions; the transcript records the reference as “government code section 111 2 6 8 1 and pursuant to government section code 111 2 6 e 1 and 2 a.” The board did not announce any decisions in open session.
Before moving to the closed session, Urban introduced and welcomed a newly seated board member, Dr. Brandy Nonakee, the Assembly appointee replacing Vincent Lay. According to Urban’s remarks, Nonakee is the founding director of the Citrus Policy Lab at the University of California, Berkeley; an associate professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, where she leads the tech policy initiative; director of Our Better Web; and faculty co-director for the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology’s project on artificial intelligence, platforms, and security. Urban said Nonakee also helps lead the UC Berkeley AI Policy Hub.
Staff and meeting support acknowledged during the opening included Robert Stanford and conference services, meeting counsel Tamara Colson, interim Executive Director Tiffany Garcia, and moderator Serena Marzion. Roll call showed Board members Liebert, McTaggart, Nonnicki, Worth and Chair Urban present; the clerk noted five present and no absences.
No public votes or final actions were taken in the public portion recorded in the transcript. Urban said the board would spend the bulk of the session in closed session on personnel and legal matters and would return to public session at 9 a.m. the next day for further agenda items.
The board indicated meeting materials were available as handouts in San Francisco and on the CPPA website. The public portion recorded in the transcript was brief and procedural; substantive consideration of the executive appointments and litigation was scheduled for the closed session and therefore not discussed on the public record during this portion of the meeting.
