As used in this chapter, “local agency” means a county, city, whether general law or chartered, city and county, town, school district, municipal corporation, district, political subdivision, or any board, commission or agency thereof, or other local public agency.
Cal. Gov. Code § 54951
Meetings
Known as the Ralph M. Brown Act
The act spans §§ 54950–54963 (68 sections).
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case 127 Cal. App. 4th 520 - Honig v. San Francisco Planning Department (2005)
Most recently applied in California Attorney General Opinion 23-102 (April 2024)
Amended by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1417.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.