Resident criticizes county records responses at public comment
At the commissioners' meeting, a resident identified as Mr. Mitchell used his three-minute public-comment period to read a records-office denial and accuse county offices of refusing to answer basic questions about public funds, pressing elected officials for clearer public-records access.
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Mr. Mitchell used his allotted three minutes to criticize how county offices respond to public-records inquiries, saying an auditor's office reply told him a simple question was "not a request for records" and therefore denied. He told commissioners he had asked, "How does the auditor determine if funds are appropriated properly?" and read a letter he said was signed by Nancy Kerger, chief compliance officer, saying the auditor had "no records responsive to this request."
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