Overview Over the last several years, Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader (“ALPR” or “Flock camera”) cameras have spread from public streets into California HOA communities, and during this time period more and more HOAs across California have installed them...
Overview If your home is in a California fire-risk area, you’ve probably been told to clear flammable material away from the house. The newest fire-safety rules go further than the old ones. They zero in on the first five feet right around your home, the strip fire...
Overview Plenty of California homeowners want to swap natural grass for artificial turf to help the environment, cut their water bills, end their mowing chores, and keep a green yard through every drought. Then their HOA denies the request because an HOA board member...
Overview A San Diego County HOA has been threatening homeowners with fines for flying the American flag in front of their own homes, and those homeowners have refused to back down. Their fight has now drawn national coverage, days before the country marks its 250th...
Overview California law hands HOAs a quiet power that bad HOA boards have learned to weaponize. When a seat opens up, the board can usually fill it by appointment, with no vote of the members at all. That power exists for a sensible reason, which is to keep an HOA...
Overview It’s close to axiomatic in California HOA law that only members may vote in HOA elections. Homeowner-side attorneys say it, HOA-side attorneys say it, and the Davis-Stirling Act says it. Yet a powerful exception cuts straight through that rule, and far too...
