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SUMMARY:Public Comment Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Public Comment: The Good\, The Bad\, And The Legal\nAs Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) from the show Parks and Rec humorously stated: “What I hear when I’m being yelled at [during a public meeting] is people caring loudly at me.” This presentation will explore the benefits of public comment\, some of the issues commonly associated with public comment\, and what you can do to address those issues. \nThe webinar will provide local government attorneys with practical guidance on managing public comment in a manner that complies with the First Amendment\, open meetings laws\, and due process requirements. Topics will include permissible time\, place\, and manner restrictions\, viewpoint neutrality\, handling disruptive or abusive speakers\, and best practices for advising elected officials and staff in real time. \nSpeaker: Todd Sheeran & Neal Falgoust
URL:https://imla.org/events/public-comment-webinar-8-4-26/
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SUMMARY:Land Use/Historic Preservation Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Key Issues in Local Historic Preservation Law\nProfessor Bronin will familiarize attendees with local powers to designate and regulate historic properties and put those local powers in a state and national context.  She will also provide a tour of the National Preservation Atlas (www.preservationatlas.org)\, the country’s first-ever public resource to integrate historic properties designated the local\, state\, and federal levels\, and the legal protections that apply to them. \nSpeaker: Sara Bronin
URL:https://imla.org/events/land-use-historic-preservation-webinar-9-3-26/
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SUMMARY:Ethics Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Legal Ethics and the Municipal Attorney\nIn this program\, Texas Center for Legal Ethics Executive Director Brad Johnson will discuss several Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct\, with a focus on municipal attorneys. The discussion will include conflict-of-interest rules (Model Rule 1.7)\, representation of an organization (Model Rule 1.13)\, and more. \nSpeaker: Brad Johnson
URL:https://imla.org/events/ethics-webinar-9-9-26/
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SUMMARY:First Amendment Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Debugging City Hall: The Practical\, Ethical\, and Litigation Risks of Lindke v. Freed at Two Years\nWhile the Supreme Court’s two-prong test is now familiar\, the operational gap between the doctrine and its daily application remains the hard part for municipal counsel. Lindke v. Freed replaced appearance-based reasoning with a structured test: actual authority to speak for the government on the specific matter\, and a purported exercise of that authority in the specific post or moderation action. Lower courts are still working out what that test means for individual officials\, mixed-use accounts\, and the moderation decisions that generate § 1983 claims. This program covers the doctrine\, the litigation file it produces\, and the practical problem of applying the test at the scale a municipal practice actually faces. \nProfessor Brian Owsley brings the bench’s reading of Lindke and the academy’s reading of how the lower courts are applying it. He is an author and IMLA presenter on First Amendment and § 1983 doctrine. \nTom Wright brings the operational side: what the litigation file looks like when it arrives\, what the ethics rules require when the city attorney is simultaneously defending the municipality and advising the individual official\, and how to structure compliance reviews that preserve privilege under model rules 1.6 and 1.13. \nChaz Stevens is the named plaintiff in Stevens v. LaMarca\, a § 1983 social-media-blocking matter against an individual state legislator\, the post-Lindke fact pattern lower courts are currently working out. He brings the plaintiff’s chair perspective and a structured method for measuring official-account exposure across the Lindke prongs\, presented to show defense counsel how a plaintiff maps a municipal digital record before the city knows a claim is brewing. \nSpeaker: Chaz Stevens\, Brian Owsley & Tom Wright
URL:https://imla.org/events/first-amendment-webinar-12-22-26/
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