During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that temporarily suspended some of the requirements of the California’s public meeting law, the Bagley Keene Act. Newsom’s executive order allowed elected boards, commissions and other state “bodies” to hold remote meetings via teleconference without posting each official’s teleconference location (which in some cases were private homes); posting agendas at each location; or making those locations accessible to the public, as required by law. | By Manny Otiko California Black Media During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that temporarily suspended some of the requirements of the California’s public meeting law, the Bagley Keene Act. Newsom’s executive order allowed elected boards, commissions and other state “bodies” to hold remote meetings via teleconference without posting each official’s teleconference
By Manny Otiko | California Black Media - A bill in California is being considered that would extend some of the changes to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act until Jan. 1, 2026, which allows remote meetings via teleconference without posting each official’s teleconference location; however, opponents believe it would lead to more government secrecy and turn state government boards and commissions into "faceless bureaucracies."
The maps of the state’s electoral districts updated once every decade to reflect the latest (2020) census count of population shifts and other demographic changes will be used until 2031 to determine political representation in all statewide elections. | By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media An advocacy group that fights for fair political representation of African Americans in California says it is pleased with the results of the state’s recent redistricting process. Last year, the California Black Census and Redistricting Hub coalition, a.k.a. the Black Hub, led a grassroots initiative to ensure […]
An advocacy group that fights for fair political representation of African Americans in California says it is pleased with the results of the state’s recent redistricting process.
meets. we re basically allaying those concerns, at least for next 90 days, to make access and availability of those benefits more readily secured. so people that are existing recipients of those benefits don t have to worry about coming back for reauthorization. we want to focus on new beneficiaries and people that are a applying in realtime. that was a significant executive order that we advance today as well. a technical one, but important to many people as it relates to public meetings. we clarified some ambiguities on bagley-keene. you can ask me about that later. it s a more complicated subject but it goes to the issues of open public discourse, the issues of transparency which is important to all of us. so we clarified that as well. on the substantive side in terms of a thrust of real focus for the state is the issue of homelessness. we also put out an executve