The court may require in camera review of the minutes in an action alleging a Brown Act violation. The Act also provides for court-ordered taping of sessions if a Brown Act violation is adjudicated. It does not expressly provide that the proceedings themselves are confidential. The Court of Appeal ruled that the Act provided the only means for obtaining disclosure of closed session proceedings. If the legislature had intended to allow disclosure in other ways, it would have enacted an express provision.
Courts lack authority to require local legislators to provide their own accounts of the proceedings.
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