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Judge O'Hare presses office to remove inaccurate agenda language; commissioners disagree
Summary
Judge Tim O'Hare urged staff to stop publishing agenda item descriptions that the court concluded misstated facts about recent election mail‑ballot statistics; several commissioners pushed back, calling the item an attempt to silence policy questions and briefings from elected members.
Tension over how the County posts agenda language surfaced during the April 14 meeting after the judge challenged a prior item whose phrasing he said misstated election data.
Judge Tim O’Hare told the court he would enforce the adopted agenda policy giving the county administrator discretion to edit item titles and descriptions so they are not factually misleading. “I would ask that you make sure inaccurate and misleading things like that don't show back up on the agenda,” he said, referencing a prior briefing description that asserted…
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