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Panel backs grand jury's transparency findings on Ethics Commission, urges timely hearings and TV coverage
Summary
The committee agreed with grand jury findings that Sunshine Ordinance Task Force enforcement actions deserve timely hearings and that audio-only records are insufficient. The Board's response supports televising Ethics Commission meetings and declines to take a position on a proposed charter change to add nonpartisan appointees, leaving that to future consideration.
The Government Audit and Oversight Committee held a hearing on the 2010'2011 civil grand jury report titled "San Francisco Ethics Commission: The Sleeping Watchdog." The grand jury found repeated dismissals of Sunshine Ordinance Task Force referrals, questioned the commission's membership selection process and urged greater transparency, including televising meetings.
Brian Clement, who chaired the grand jury subcommittee, said the task force's referrals to the Ethics Commission between 2004 and 2010 were all dismissed for various reasons and recommended stronger public hearings, additional independent appointees to the commission and broadcasting its meetings.
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