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By: Anthony Tannehill SB 496 (Hurtado) overcame another hurdle when it passed unanimously out of the Senate Transportation Committee last week, with compelling testimony presented by officials from CSDA member Soquel Creek Water District. The next stop for SB 496 is the Senate...
By Beth Ziesenis, Your Nerdy Best Friend and our 2025 General Manager Summit Keynote Speaker By now, you’ve probably seen an AI notetaking bot pop up in one of your online meetings. Maybe it was Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, or some other bot quietly capturing every word. These tools promise to...
By: @Marcus Detwiler Following the November 2024 General Election, local public agencies, including special districts, should take care to complete legally-required updates to their Registry of Public Agencies filing (also known as Form SF-405 ). Should an agency end up seating new board...
By @Marcus Detwiler On Thursday, November 16, CSDA’s Board of Directors met in Sacramento and adopted “oppose” positions on a pair of ballot initiatives that may appear before California voters on the November 2024 ballot. The two ballot initiatives, numbered 23-0015A1 and 23-0025A1 ...
On February 10, CSDA submitted a letter to the California Supreme Court requesting depublication of the Third District Court of Appeal opinion in Getz v. Superior Court of El Dorado County ( C091337 ). In Getz , the Third District ruled in favor of a public records requester seeking records...
Lead Agencies Must Take Special Care to Retain All Internal Agency Communications By Gregory M. Bergman and Brian J. Bergman, Bergman Dacey Goldsmith On November 10, 2020, the California Supreme Court—in a loss for public agencies throughout the state—denied review and requests for...
On May 28, the California Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision and held that under the California Public Records Act (“CPRA”), a requestor of an electronic record (e.g., video recording) is not required to pay a public agency for the costs of redacting or removing protected information...