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City attorney briefs Salinas Library and Community Services Commission on Brown Act, records and decorum
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City Attorney Chris Callahan told the Library and Community Services Commission that its meetings must follow the Brown Act and Public Records Act, stressed attendance rules and warned that certain social-media interactions and serial emails can create reportable meetings.
City Attorney Chris Callahan told the Salinas Library and Community Services Commission on Aug. 13 that commissioners must conduct commission business in public and take care when using email, social media or written messages because those communications can be public records and, in some circumstances, can create an unlawful meeting under the Brown Act.
Callahan said the commission is subject to the city's uniform bylaws and to state laws that promote open government. "If you do not want it published in the newspaper, do not put it in writing," he told the commissioners, summarizing the practical risk of creating public-records requests…
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