California Municipal Law Blog
by Kelly M. Doyle on March 18, 2026
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Administrative Regulations, Brown Act, Legislative Updates, Meetings, Municipal Law,
Recognizing the utility of employing online meeting platforms for public meetings under the Ralph M. Brown Act, California’s open meeting law, lawmakers recently approved legislation that would require certain public agencies to provide the public with both online and telephonic options at public meetings, among other requirements. This legislation, Senate Bill 707 (María Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles), aims to modernize the Brown Act’s teleconferencing provisions while expanding the public’s access to local government meetings.
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Many of the sweeping changes authorized by SB 707 ... Continue Reading
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Brown Act, Hybrid meetings, Public meetings,
by Layla A. Sarwari on March 4, 2026
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Administrative Regulations, Landlord-Tenant, Legislative Updates,
A trio of newly enacted statutes is reshaping the regulatory landscape for mobilehome parks across California, expanding tenant protections, modernizing notice requirements and imposing new disaster-response obligations that directly affect local governments and public agencies.
Assembly Bill 391
Assembly Bill 391 (Michelle Rodriguez, D-Ontario) amends Section 798.14 of the Civil Code to allow mobilehome park management to provide required notices to homeowners and residents electronically with affirmative written consent. This includes annual notices required by the Mobilehome Residency ... Continue Reading
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ASSEMBLY BILL 391, ASSEMBLY BILL 806, CIVIL CODE AMENDMENTS, MOBILE HOME, MOBILEHOME, New laws, PUBLIC AGENCY LAW, SENATE BILL 610, TENANT LAWS,
by Jason M. Ewert on December 8, 2025
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Law Enforcement, Public Records Act,
In recent years, the California Legislature has taken significant steps to provide the public with greater access to peace officer personnel files, which were previously only accessible through formal law and motion proceedings, generally referred to as Pitchess motions. First, in 2018 Senate Bill 1421 (Skinner) amended section 832.7 of the California Penal code to require disclosure of certain categories of information from peace officer personnel files in response to California Public Records Act (CPRA) requests for information. Those categories include incidents involving discharge of a firearm ... Continue Reading
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New laws, Pitchess, Police,
by Stephen J. Zelezny on October 23, 2025
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Administrative Regulations, CEQA, Legislative Updates,
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed landmark California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) reform legislation into law on June 30, 2025. Together, Senate Bill 131 (SB 131) and Assembly Bill 130 (AB 130) exempt numerous development projects from extensive environmental review — enacting an urgent statewide effort to spur new housing construction. In addition to prioritizing housing, SB 131 also creates statutory exemptions for nonresidential developments, such as healthcare facilities, day care centers and broadband projects.
Municipalities, developers and residents will surely welcome these new CEQA reforms, ... Continue Reading
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AB130, administrative record, CEQA, construction, developers, SB 131,
by Sarah B. Levett on October 8, 2025
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Litigation, Municipal Law,
Vexatious litigants are especially vexing for public entities, which have an obligation to carefully steward finite amounts of tax dollars and which are frequently targeted by individuals alleging shadowy government conspiracies. Ordinarily, when a self-represented litigant who meets one or more of the criteria set forth in Code of Civil Procedure Section 391(b) files suit, their classification and treatment as vexatious is straightforward. The issue becomes less straightforward, however, when the litigant is not the plaintiff but the defendant. This scenario can arise in the context of code enforcement ... Continue Reading
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