Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jun. 5, 2007
Legal Loopholes Do Not Obscure Public Officials' Responsibilities
Forum Column - Peter Scheer, director of the California First Amendment Coalition, explains how the Tracy City Council is using a loophole in the Public Records Act to shut out transparency in local government.
By Peter Scheer
Those enterprising members of the Tracy City Council have come up with a strategy to hide from public view their written communications about government business. With a bit of legal legerdemain, they claim to be able to evade state open-government laws, transforming their communications from public records into private correspondence.
How can they do that? Si...
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