Citizens involved in local public issues, government officials, and candidates are invited to a League of Women Voters forum on open government and the right to know 7:30 p.m. Sept. 12 at Foothills Congregational Church, 461 Orange Ave., Los Altos.

The forum, with attorney James Chadwick, an expert in First Amendment issues, will cover the Brown Act, the California open meetings law, and the state’s laws on public record access.

Chadwick is an attorney with DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP, a global law firm which acts as general counsel for the California First Amendment Coalition.

For more information, e-mail the Los Altos-Mountain View League at info@www.lwvlamv.org or call 941-4846.