Requirements of advance notice before local officials hold a meeting has mutated into strict limitations

Local Government Has Changed So Much That the Historic Brown Act Is Silencing Us, Not Protecting Us Carmen Bella, 76, a resident of Bell, Calif. yells at city council members during a city council meeting addressing city leaders’ pay in July 2010. Photo by Chris Pizzello/Associated Press. The Ralph M. Brown Act, first approved in 1953,…