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Commission says Copley decision compels closed sessions, moves to seek legislative remedy
Summary
The commission voted to disclose certain closed‑session discussion and agreed to advance a resolution asking the mayor and Board of Supervisors to petition the Legislature after the California Supreme Court’s Copley Press decision; commissioners also decided to hold certain disciplinary hearings in closed session per counsel’s advice.
The San Francisco Police Commission voted to disclose portions of an earlier closed‑session discussion and took up a draft resolution urging the mayor and Board of Supervisors to press the state Legislature to amend the law after the California Supreme Court’s decision in Copley Press, Inc. v. Superior Court.
President Louise Rennie explained the commission believed it was "compelled by the Copley decision to hold a closed session" for evidentiary hearings and said the commission had directed the city attorney "to develop procedures in light of that case to provide us…
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