Disclosure of sources of income and other financial interests
Disclosure of charitable fundraising activities
Disclosure of campaign contributions
Open meeting laws
The public’s right to participate in meetings
The public’s right to access records
This publication is part of a series of resources designed to help California local officials meet both the law’s and the public’s expectations for public service.
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A consortium of nonprofit organizations offers some thoughts in the context of their charge to evaluate the federal government's open government efforts: https://sites.google.com/site/opengovtplans/
The organization, OpentheGovernment.org, first evaluated the plans produced by federal agencies. The next step is evaluating how agencies are implementing these plans at various times over the next year.
This handy pamphlet provides a plain-language explanation of what decision-makers need to know about California's transparency laws (the Brown Act and the Public Records Act). The pamphlet is three-hole punched for easy storage in agenda binders.
This article examines the special ethical issues public officials need to be sensitive to when fundraising for worthy causes. Although the focus of the article is charitable fundraising, a number of the principles also apply in political fundraising.
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When elected officials serve on regional governing bodies, they can face perplexing issues as to whose interests they should be advancing. This article sorts through some of those issues.
(Four-page tipsheet): Provides a handy reference on the kinds of issues that ought to trigger a conversation with agency counsel or the Fair Political Practices Commission.
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