California Court of Appeal

Sustaining of demurrer to complaint alleging city officials and council members violated the Brown Act by meeting privately to discuss a new policy to govern the city police department's response to activated home invasion alarms prior to a public meeting on the policy, is reversed, as the allegations allow the inference that, prior to the meeting, the council members had improperly reached a "collective concurrence" that they would not challenge the verified response policy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/31/2006
• Published 10/31/2006

Judges

• MARGULIES, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter N. Hagberg, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Moscone, Emblidge & Quadra, LLP, G. Scott Emblidge, Rachel J. Sater, San Francisco, for Defendants and Respondents.