Wolfe v. City of Fremont

Opinion

MARGULIES, J.

This appeal requires us to construe a provision of the Ralph M. Brown Act (Brown Act) (Gov. Code, 1 § 54950 et seq.) that prohibits a majority of the members of a local legislative body, when outside a noticed public meeting, from using “direct communication, personal intermediaries, or technological devices ... to develop a collective concurrence as to action to be taken on an item.” (§ 54952.2, subd. (b).)

The police department of the City of Fremont (City) devised a new policy to govern its response to activated home invasion alarms. Plaintiff J. Dennis Wolfe alleges…