News Media This page includes all media for all projects listed in reverse chronological order (most recent first). You will probably find it useful to review the...
BECHTEL IS COMING TO MONROEVILLE Bechtel, one of the richest and most secretive private US corporations, helps develop nuclear weapons, pushed for us to go to wa...
BlackwaterInPotrero THIS TOPIC IS DEPRECATED. PLEASE SEE BlackwaterPotrero Blackwater is proposing a special operations training camp to be established in Potrero...
Latest News July 8th, Board of Governors' meeting Please attend the meeting at the SouthwesternCollege main campus, 900 Otay Lakes Rd, Chula Vista, 6:30p meet fo...
Sub projects Latest News Huge fire resulted after starting in a guard shack, charring 25,000 acres. Eventually, the tribe ejected the Blackwater spinoff. Backgr...
Blackwater Potrero "Blackwater West" Mercenary Camp BlackwaterWorldwide, part of the PrinceGroup and one of the largest private military contractors in the worl...
THE RALPH M. BROWN ACT California Government Code Sections 54950 et seq, enacted in 1953 by the California State Legislature in an effort to safeguard the public'...
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Latest News * Witness.org Organization founded by Peter Gabriel to encourage people to use modern video cameras to document human rights atrocities. It was t...
CitizensOversight.org Reveals Thousands of Ballots Misplaced and Hundreds Uncounted by San Diego County Registrar of Voters in November, 2008 General Election S...
COPsVideoSquads One of the most successful tactics of COPs is to create digital videos of meetings and then to post those to the web. This topic will summarize th...
California Public Records Act on Law Enforcement Records 6254. Except as provided in Sections 6254.7 and 6254.13, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to r...
CaliforniaPublicRecordsAct The California Public Records Act (CPRA) recognizes that the public owns the work of their government, and therefore requires that publ...
Sub projects Latest News The Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United v. FEC a new president has been made out of whole cloth.! The majority is violating the Su...
Latest News Church Use of School District Property This issue was brought up in the RockChurchEcpacTakeover project as many city leaders were comparing renting E...
Citizens' Oversight Projects (COPs) Citizens' Oversight records selected meetings and events, and conducts extensive interviews. Our videos are in the style of C ...
This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. The most active projects have been related to the San Onof...
This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. Since this was an election year, the most active projects ...
This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. Since this was an election year, the most active projects ...
Closed Session Details Meetings may enter closed session to discuss: * application license renewal of someone with a criminal record * Real Property negoti...
Copswiki Calendar of Events See Events Web for events we are promoting. CalendarUpdate DailyList Edit Calendar MeetingPlaces See Also: * CalendarUpdate...
CommonProjects The general organization of projects can be found here: COPsProgram. * Cops.GovernmentAccessChannel The City of El Cajon utilizes Cox cable c...
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GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 87100 87105 87100. No public official at any level of state or local government shall make, participate in making or in any way attempt t...
Latest News * December2012FundraisingEmail Background This topic will help us to organize our fundraising efforts. Citizens Oversight has reached a new level...
This email list is our main announcement list for general announcements of meetings, press conferences, events, etc. Email volume is low, perhaps one or two email...
Latest News New tutorials added. Background This project exists to provide a place for tutorials and information about the copswiki.org colloboration platform. C...
CouncilOfCensors From the 1776 Constitution of Pennsylvania: SECT. 47. In order that the freedom of the commonwealth may be preserved inviolate forever, there sha...
Latest News Background I started this project mainly as a placeholder right now, to record any issues we notice about court procedures that may need further inve...
Latest News * 2010 06 23 "Top Cap" suction pipe no longer engaged on top of wellhead, well is now gushing full force with no containment at all. Background ...
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ElCajonSafetyCenter Safety Center Strips Theater Parking On July 30th, the City of El Cajon conducted an evening public review of the new "Safety Center", propos...
EventsArchive EventsArchive2009 Calendar events for 2009 2006 Paste in events that are deleted from the Calendar Page. * 30 Sep 2006 Hanson Fundraiser, R...
Images (Just attach your images to this topic and they will automatically be added to the gallery above!) Discussion List See ListServe for all email discussi...
Sub projects Overview According to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, "the most important office in a democracy is that of the citizen." Unfortunately, our g...
GovtOversight Projects The following COPsProgram projects have the ProjectType parameter set to GovtOversight. How to locate an appropriate governmental body tha...
* Web Site: http://portal.guhsd.net/GUHSD/ * Great article that summarizes the recent takeover of the GUHSD by religious radicals Californian_Article_ _Relig...
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Yes, we appreciate relevant submissions of articles, videos, audio, etc. from anyone! If you are a writer or you find an article that can be submitted here, pleas...
Latest News Background * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine Outlines the original intention to establish a Jewish homeland in Palesti...
KeywordList Include this in the Media Form table to allow dynamic generation. Normally, it is possible to use a topic to list the options but the select item is c...
Sub projects Latest News * Board meeting on Sept 15 was a packed house, the public hearing the apology of the board, and at the same time, a slap to the membe...
Latest News * Two members of the Fire Board served with recall notices Background The department, with a $12 million budget, serves 60,000 residents in Lakesi...
NEWS RELEASE Ray Lutz for Congress 2010www.VoteRayLutz.comMedia Contact: Brennan Purtzer, Media Director619 447 3246 / brennan@VoteRayLutz.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELE...
State court declares Roseville Galleria's speech rules unconstitutional dwalsh@sacbee.com Published Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 A state appellate court has declared...
His application for a job at the Grossmont health district was rejected By Steve Schmidt Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 10:06 p.m. Document Download: Grossmon...
Board rejects Jim Stieringer s application for district staff job. Now Stieringer, who retired Friday, asks for his Board seat back but his future remains in limb...
By SteveSchmidt Monday, November 15, 2010 at 7:48 p.m. Jim Stieringer Pension math Board pension: Retiring at age 69, Stieringer is expected to net a pension wit...
Jim Stieringer's old seat on the Grossmont Healthcare District board will go to someone else, the board decided Monday morning after meeting in closed session at ...
Response by CalAware, ready to bring this to court: I sincerely appreciate your very prompt reply to our concerns. I assure you that our aim is to educate and, o...
Letter says the board violated the Brown Act with a "secret meeting" in which directors decided not to give former board member Jim Stieringer his seat back. The ...
By Jeff McDonald Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 5:48 p.m. Michael Covert Palomar Pomerado Health Overall 2010 11 Budget: $480 million Population Served: 541,000...
Californians Aware used the threat of lawsuit to gain a reversal from the board, which now will meet Tuesday on Jim Stieringer's request to get his former seat ba...
By Union Tribune Editorial Board Saturday, November 20, 2010 at midnight Why a 69 year old health care district trustee tried to switch to full time employee stat...
Transcript: Stieringer: Good morning. I just suddenly realized that my corrected vision is not really good for these sort of distances. Actually, I'm really glad...
* Agendas and minutes, associated documents, can be found here: GHD Docs * See also Video and transcript of 2010 11 23 GHD meeting including remarks by Stierin...
By this case: * PEG channels cannot require permission from everyone if it is "news gathering." * Cannot limit photographers from recording illegal acts. ...
This case finds: * As to the First Amendment claim under Section 1983, we agree with the Smiths that they had a First Amendment right, subject to reasonable ti...
This case finds: * A citizen can record city council meetings to allow for expression under first amendment * "the ban on Thompson's tape recorder has s...
The CPUC is a public agency that is responsible for regulating the public utilities in California. In this case, this agency is in the midst of an investigation i...
By David Hasemyer UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER September 12, 2007 City Attorney MichaelAguirre wants to know the story behind KPBS' decision to cancel its public a...
Let's pull this apart a bit more. There are a few different "levels" that such actions may be classified into: 1. "PRIVATE ACTION" Club/Group/Forum meetings whe...
Zuma Dogg "proves" that you don't have to give your full name. Although we are not suggesting that you use Zuma Dogg's techniques, he does make a point. Then, he ...
CommonCalendar Entry * 25 May 2019 EarthSummit at BalboaParkClubBallroom, 2150 Pan American Road West, 92101 (Registration 8:30am, Event 9am to 9pm) RSVP: ht...
A Brief History of Citizens' Oversight Projects I think it may help if I give a thumbnail sketch of the history of this entity. It is a 501(c)3 nonpartisan nonpro...
In the media December 11, 2008 Shutting Down Public Access TV By Patrick Range Mc Donald, L.A. WEEKLY AT T and L.A. City Hall Quietly Lead a National Pus...
Summary Ray Lutz of CitizensOversight.org explains how to use a digital video camera to video record public meetings. Demonstration includes set up of the tripod,...
New resource for citizen journalists Post categories: BBC News Matthew Eltringham 16:10 UK time, Thursday, 17 September 2009 What is citizen journalism? More...
Citizen journalism will remain part of changing news models, says report tweetmeme_source = 'journalismnews'; Posted: 18/09/09 By: Laura Oliver email this stor...
ACTION ITEMS While most action items are routine in the sense that they appear on every agenda (e.g. purchase orders, personnel assignments, etc.), there are alwa...
(This topic is an email thread and is provided in reverse order, so read from the bottom up.) 2010 01 13 Dear Mr. Jantz: This topic will be called "C00023 GHD,...
$100,000 given to clinic for uninsured Grant is increased for Volunteers in Medicine By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 12...
Activist a common sight recording local meetings Ray Lutz is government watchdog By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 12:04 ...
GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 11120 11132 11120. It is the public policy of this state that public agencies exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business and th...
Public isn t given a chance to comment By Anne Krueger, UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 12:05 a.m. EL CAJON Criticism of the way El Cajon...
SDG E Hosted this meeting at the Alpine Women's Club to go over the details of the construction in the middle of Alpine to underground the Sunrise Powerlink trans...
MainProjectList NOTE: Creating project list for WebLeftBar is too compute intensive to do the search each time. Therefore, this topic should be re edited each tim...
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News Article, East County Californian, 01 11 2007 COPS to police local government boards By DerekShaw The EastCountyCalifornian Citizens Oversight Panels are bei...
News Media This page includes all media for all projects listed in reverse chronological order (most recent first). You will probably find it useful to review the...
Sub projects Latest News Background Images (Just attach your images to this topic and they will automatically be added to the gallery above!) Articles and Me...
Sub projects Latest News Background This project was discovered by MiriamRaftery of the EastCountyMagazine. This is a HUGE proposal and potential impact. Please...
Latest News Background Images (Just attach your images to this topic and they will automatically be added to the gallery above!) Recent Articles and Media: (A...
This analysis is somewhat dated and needs to be updated. Background This project can be considered a "Meta Project", that is, it is a project regarding how we ha...
ProjectListGrouped Infrastructure Projects related to how we manage projects and support information. * COPsProgram Parent project to all COPs projects...
ProjectType Projects are classified into three types, as specified by the ProjectType field in the ProjectForm. * GovtOversight Oversight of the operation of...
Last Published Publisher RaymondLutz Date 2010 02 13 00:46 relativedir w/pub/Common/CopsCanvassReport/ $Foswiki::cfg{PublishPlugin}{Dir} /var/www/vhosts/cop...
See ContactSanDiegoLAFCO for contact information. Latest News * 2011 02 07 Approved judgment by appeals court reversing their denial of the incorporation of...
Sub projects Latest News San Diego Reinvestment Task Force meets every 3rd Thursday except in August and December. Background * Website: http://www.smartmone...
See parent project ShutSanOnofre Background Each nuclear power plant is licensed by the NRC, through the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. Southern California E...
Sub projects Latest News Related Organizations * Seal Watch San Diego http://savesandiegoseals.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/110458308766/ Backgr...
Sub projects Latest News RayLutz, Martha Sullivan, and Mike Garcia attempt to perform a citizens arrest of Mayor Jerry Sanders for felony embezzlement. See Video...
Tutorial This is the best tutorial so far of this process. HISTORY OF ACTIONS: * June 2016 Sent letters to all 58 counties with some refinements from the pr...
Latest News * Special Common.GrossmontHealthcareBoard meeting scheduled for Monday, November 15 at 7:30am to review the Stieringer issue in closed session. How...
Background The violations at Sharp Grossmont #8220;indicate a serious breakdown of the hospital's systems that are designed to ensure appropriate patient care, #...
Sub projects Latest News Background This project explores the problem with war for profit, including the scourge of PrivateMercenaries that have recently become...
Water Fluoridation is BAD PUBLIC POLICY and we must work to stop it! In the meantime, consider purchasing a reverse osmosis filter to rid the water of this hazard...
This web site is dedicated to enabling citizens to provide needed oversight to our democracy. At present, Citizens Oversight is focused only on deploying AuditEng...
OccupySanDiegoCityCouncilResolution PROPOSED RESOLUTION FOR SAN DIEGO To be Submitted 2011 11 01 The following proposed resolution will be submitted at the San...