The Brown Act provides certain guarantees to ensure meetings are open to the public, encourage participation, and help ensure transparency and accountability. Recently, meetings have been disrupted and shut down by loud, angry and threatening crowds. The City's "solution" to this was to limit the amount of seating available in Council chambers. This proved entirely ineffective, as the loud, angry and threatening crowd, albeit smaller, still effectively shut down the meeting. Members of the public will be deterred from participating if the Council cannot or will not prevent or punish those who disrupt meetings in such an uncivilized fashion. What can we do to solve this problem?