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Ethics Commission: Arts Commission failed to provide required redaction notice but may withhold addresses; mixed rulings in Sunshine referral
Summary
The Ethics Commission found the Arts Commission failed to follow procedural redaction-notice requirements and that Arts Commission staff did not timely respond to an immediate disclosure request, but concluded the redacted contact information need not be disclosed and found no willful failure to comply with the Task Force order.
The San Francisco Ethics Commission issued a mixed ruling on a Sunshine Ordinance referral from the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force involving the San Francisco Arts Commission’s handling of speaker-card redactions.
The commission found that Kate Patterson, the Arts Commission’s director of communications, did not respond to an immediate disclosure request in a timely manner and that the Arts Commission failed to comply with the procedural notice and justification requirements in section 67.26 when it provided redacted speaker cards. At the same time, the Ethics Commission concluded on the record before it that the respondent had met the burden to establish that the redacted information (personal addresses and emails) need not be publicly…
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