Government Secrecy Is Growing During the Coronavirus Pandemic: Local, state and federal officials throughout the United States have locked down information from the public

https://www.nextgov.com/ideas/2020/04/government-secrecy-growing-during-coronavirus-pandemic/164539/

created by quantumcipher on 14/04/2020 at 15:11 UTC

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Comment by Int-l_Terrorist at 21/04/2020 at 19:24 UTC

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Here in California, the Governor's lockdown order is being used to close government meetings to the public. On Mar. 17, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a motion with neither written notice, public comment, nor the determinations required by state law for omitting written notice, making all of their meetings and the meetings of their committees "remote", meaning that they hold them over videoconferencing software, the public may watch them on TV, and may phone in to comment. This violates state law, which requires teleconference locations be accessible to the public. The Board cites the lockdown order, which doesn't prohibit these meetings, and, even if it did, does not override state law without an explicit declaration which is, I think, not politically feasible.