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Ethics commission declines to find willful Sunshine violation in dispute over 150‑word public‑comment summaries
Summary
After hours of testimony, the San Francisco Ethics Commission found no willful violation over the Library Commission’s past practice of placing 150‑word public comment summaries in addenda, while urging clearer, consistent practices going forward.
The San Francisco Ethics Commission on Dec. 5 considered a complaint by Ray Hartz, director of San Francisco Open Government, alleging that Library City Librarian Luis Herrera and the Library Commission improperly kept citizen‑submitted 150‑word public comment summaries out of the body of the official minutes.
Hartz told the commission the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force had repeatedly interpreted the ordinance to mean that such summaries belong “in the body of the minutes” and argued the library had, for years, marginalized public comments by placing summaries in addenda or hard‑to‑find appendices. “Willful ignorance of what one ought to know is a mortal sin,” Hartz told commissioners as he reviewed Task Force orders he said…
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