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Commission discusses handling disruptive speakers, Brown Act rules and requests training
Summary
After a profane and disruptive public comment that included racial slurs, the Planning Commission reviewed the Brown Act's standards for disruptive behavior, discussed speaker limits and requested a training session on meeting conduct and statutory rules.
The West Covina Planning Commission spent time during its Jan. 28 meeting addressing oral-communications protocols after an unidentified public commenter used profanity and racial slurs and was removed for disrupting the hearing.
Chair Heng opened the meeting's oral-communications period with the standard public-comment instruction; an extended public comment later included profanity and racialized language and occurred during the open comment period. The chair and staff…
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