Public Records
This law provides that, subject to limited exceptions, all CA local agency public records must be available for public inspection.
What is the California Public Records Act?
A litigant must (usually) comply with this statute before filing a lawsuit against a public entity.
What is the Government Claims Act?
This state-mandated component is the part of a city's General Plan that outlines housing needs and establishes housing goals, policies, and actions.
What is the Housing Element?
This government power allows for the purchase of private property for a “public use” so long as the property owner is paid “just compensation”.
What is the power of eminent domain?
This form must be filed by some public employees annually.
What is form 700?
This term refers to documents that relate to the conduct of public business and are maintained by a local agency.
What are "public records"?
An administrative claim must be presented to the public entity before filing a lawsuit only with this type of remedy is being sought.
What are money damages?
This law governs the disposition of most land owned by CA public agencies.
What is the Surplus Land Act?
The governing body’s formal decision declaring the need to acquire private property for a public project or use.
What is the Resolution of Necessity?
This state law requires that public agencies hold open meetings and provide notice of meetings.
What is the Brown Act?
The typical deadline for providing a determination to a CPRA request.
What is 10 days?
A claimant must file a lawsuit against the public entity within this amount of time if the claim is rejected within 45 days.
What is six months?
Cities are required to identify adequate sites and sufficient zoning in place to meet this number as part of their Housing Element.
What is the RHNA (Regional Housing Needs Allocation)?
This legal procedure allows a condemning agency to take physical possession of property before trial.
What is the motion of prejudgment possession?
This Government Code section prohibits public officials from being having a financial interest in government contracts.
What is Gov. Code section 1090?
This seminal case in which the CA Supreme Court held that records can still be considered public records even if held on personal devices or accounts.
What is City of San Jose v. Superior Court?
A claim for breach of contract and real property damage must be filed with the public entity within this amount of time.
What is one year?
This new process created by SB 330 allows an applicant to "vest" their application, thereby freezing applicable rules at the time of submittal.
What is the Preliminary Application Process?
This law provides that a public entity acquiring real property or carrying out an activity that results in displacement must provide relocation advisory and financial assistance to any displaced person, business or farm operation.
This person may after providing a warning to a person disrupting a meeting remove that person if they continued to disrupt a public meeting.
Who is the “chair” of the public body?
The 2018 law that greatly expanded access to records of police officer misconduct.
What is SB 1421 (The Right to Know Act)?
A claim brought under this law provides an alternative for recovering damages when state limitation periods have run or state immunities would otherwise bar the action.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
The bill that authorized Streamlined Ministerial Approval of certain Housing Projects with affordable components in cities that have not met their RHNA requirements.
What is SB 35
This remedy is available for property owners who have their property taken or damaged for public use without just compensation.
What is inverse condemnation?
A person may not participate in a decision if their property is this distance from the subject property.
What is 500 feet?