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Mount Vernon Board of Ethics debates whether FOIA should disclose who filed complaints
Summary
At a brief meeting the Mount Vernon Board of Ethics discussed two public-records requests asking whether the board or city investigated particular individuals, and officials said the cityFOIA officer and legal department determine what is releasable.
The Mount Vernon Board of Ethics spent part of its meeting on whether Freedom of Information Act requests seeking the identities of people who filed complaints should be released. The board, which convened at 6:35 p.m., discussed two recent FOIA requests asking whether specific individuals had been the subject of investigations and who had filed complaints.
Chair Curtis Braxton said, "It's come to my attention that we've got some correspondence through FOIA that people on the outside, they're requesting... who made complaints of investigations and things like that,"…
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