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Resident criticizes River Falls transparency, cites delays in police records requests
Summary
A resident used public comment to urge the city to improve transparency, saying the city is not properly keeping closed-meeting records and that a police records request took more than 65 days compared with a statewide average of 10 days.
During the public-comment period a resident urged the city to improve transparency, saying city practices fall short of state requirements for maintaining records of closed meetings and that the city’s police department is slow to fulfill public-record requests.
“I’m here once again to encourage the city to be more transparent with its citizens,” the resident said, and told the council they should do better at keeping records of closed meetings so matters discussed in secret can be opened once the reason for the closed meeting no longer applies.
The commenter told the council the state average for fulfilling the relevant police-department record requests is about 10 days and said their recent simple request to the River Falls Police Department took “over 65 days.” The resident suggested the council work toward better transparency so “the citizenry really can tell what you’re doing.”
The remarks were made during the meeting’s public-comment period; no council response or follow-up action is recorded in the public portion of the transcript.
