Government
Feb. 7, 2007
Voyeurism Rules
FORUM COLUMN - By Peter Scheer - Say it ain't so. Say that local governments aren't secretive. Not only is a First Amendment advocate saying that, but his group also is suing a San Bernardino County official it claims is violating open-government laws.
By Peter Scheer
One of California's more remarkable political inventions is the requirement that lawmakers do their lawmaking in the open, for all to see. Call it the people's entitlement to democratic voyeurism: Members of city councils, county boards of supervisors and school boards, among other local legislative bodies, must not only vote in public but also confine nearly all...
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