Their bills would allow board members to literally phone it in and block the public from full participation.
Meanwhile, another Bay Area legislator seeks to similarly hinder public access to meetings of powerful state agency boards such as the Public Utilities Commission, Air Resources Board, Coastal Commission, Board of Parole Hearings, and the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training., commissioners could actually phone it in as they make decisions on everything from setting PG&E rates to protecting our coastline to disciplining bad cops.
The Brown Act was signed into law in 1953 in response to news reports that elected officials often conducted public business in private. Back then, members of a city council, for example, would hash out decisions in advance and then merely formalize them, often without discussion, at an open meeting.Yet that’s what Papan and Laird would have us do.
Nuanced interchanges between elected officials as they hash out policy compromises were hidden from public view. And there were the officials who hid by turning off their cameras; constituents often didn’t know if their representatives were even paying attention.
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