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Ethics commission deadlocks on finding that supervisor willfully ignored records request
Summary
The San Francisco Ethics Commission split 2-2 on whether to sustain a Sunshine Ordinance Task Force—finding that a supervisor willfully failed to respond to an immediate disclosure request dating to March 2015, leaving no formal willful finding after a contested hearing.
The San Francisco Ethics Commission on Dec. 19 declined to sustain a Sunshine Ordinance Task Force finding that a supervisor willfully failed to respond to an immediate disclosure request, after a 2-2 vote left the motion short of a majority.
Complainant Ray Hartz, director of San Francisco Open Government, told the commission he filed an immediate disclosure request (IDR) on March 19, 2015 and then spent more than a year seeking a response. He said the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force had found that the supervisor did not respond ‘‘in a timely and complete manner’’ and that the failure violated "section 67 21 E and 67 25 A of the…
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