Most often the press writes about some Brown Act, California\u2019s Open Government law, violations committed by a board or commission.<\/p>\n
But last month, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors amended its policy on Electronic Media and Use (A-50) to help supervisors and staff avoid an inadvertent violation.<\/p>\n
Supv. Kevin Jeffries (District 1) observed to his colleagues that emails sent to all or even a majority of board members could unintentionally trigger a \u201cserial meeting\u201d if any respondent, even staff, were to \u201creply all\u201d to the message.<\/p>\n
He proposed that whenever an email from a county account is sent to a majority of the supervisors, or even a city council or board appointed commission, the blind carbon copy (BCC) function be used.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf a single user or anyone hits \u2018reply all\u2019 it doesn\u2019t automatically create, but has the potential to create an accidental serial meeting,\u201d he said. \u201cLet\u2019s require staff that they don\u2019t use that form and inadvertently walk into something.\u201d<\/p>\n
His colleagues agreed and unanimously approved the policy change 5-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most often the press writes about some Brown Act, California\u2019s Open Government law, violations committed by a board or commission. But last month, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors amended its policy on Electronic Media and Use (A-50) to help supervisors and staff avoid an inadvertent violation. Supv. Kevin Jeffries (District 1) observed to his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n