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Attorney Anthony Taylor listens to lawyers from the ACLU of Northern of California during a February 26 court hearing. Taylor, who works for the law firm Aleshire & Wynder, LLP, is one of the attorneys defending the City of Fresno in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Northern California and the First Amendment Coalition, which alleges Fresno's budget process violated California's Brown Act for at least five years.

Did Fresno City Hall use a secretive process to hide things that ‘won’t look good publicly’?

A trove of emails were released in an active lawsuit against the City of Fresno, which show behind the scenes conversations about the city’s budget process.

Government & Politics

Across Valley, Concerns Arise Over Government Transparency

Kerry Klein

Earlier this year, we reported on a new immigration policy in Madera County: Whenever the county jail was releasing a foreign-born felon back into the…

Government & Politics

State budget suspends Brown Act provisions

Local government boards in California are no longer required to post agendas or disclose decisions made in closed sessions. As Amy Quinton reports from…