Email Accessibility to City Government*
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Findings and Recommendations 5 findings
Conclusions 1
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CL1All municipalities (except the City of Grover Beach) require employees and council members to use individual city domains (i.e., city.org) when conducting business by email. Citizens should not have to seek information regarding their city's business via any official's personal email address. The websites of each municipality (except the City of Grover Beach) list an official city domain email address for each of its council members, city manager and department heads. The websites are available to the public. Although no evidence of Brown Act violations were discovered, the use of personal email in discussing public business can easily and unnecessarily give the impression of such. Grover Beach residents do not have email access to their elected council members, and therefore are hindered in gaining direct access to their elected officials. All city business, including emails, should be open for public inspection as guaranteed by the Freedom of Information Act.
Commendations 1
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CM1The City of Morro Bay is commended for the rapid transference of their city council members' personal emails to city domain emails for conducting official business.
Agency Responses 2
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No Responses Found 3
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