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SB 707 changes teleconferencing, social media and notice rules; counsel urges caution for small districts
Summary
Counsel for Mendocino LAFCO briefed commissioners on SB 707 during the Nov. 3 meeting, outlining teleconferencing, social media, and notice changes that affect the Brown Act and describing next steps for policy updates.
Counsel for Mendocino LAFCO briefed commissioners on SB 707 during the Nov. 3 meeting, outlining which statutory changes apply to this LAFCO and which provisions are aimed at larger agencies.
Counsel Burch told the commission the new law formalizes several pandemic-era teleconferencing flexibilities and makes them permanent in part. She said the law keeps the requirement that the public have both in‑person and remote access and that a quorum still must be physically present at the meeting location, but that it adds an explicit ‘‘just cause’’ category — allowing remote participation for reasons…
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