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Students and residents urge action as council faces ethics questions; council member requests staff report on censure options
Summary
High school students and community members publicly pressed the council on March 17 to act after felony charges were reported against a sitting council member. Council member Ball formally requested staff report options for censure, removal from committees or other interim measures while criminal proceedings proceed.
Several Lompoc residents, including multiple students from the high school debate team, used public comment at the March 17 council meeting to call attention to legal allegations involving a sitting council member and to urge the council to act.
"A sitting council member... is facing multiple felonies," said Gary Jeffrey (speaker 23), vice president of the Lompoc Valley Black Student Union, who told the council the youth expect leadership that upholds "honesty, accountability, transparency,…
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