Citing broad exemptions under California’s legislative records law, the state Senate is keeping secret a taxpayer-funded report about Capitol staff hiring friends and relatives despite calls by lawmakers, statewide candidates and public interest groups that it be released.
Peter Scheer, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, said the Legislature’s special records law should be renamed “the California Legislative Secrecy Law” because it grants lawmakers protections that no other public body has available.
“It’s very disturbing,” Scheer said of the nepotism report being kept from public view. “It is legal confirmation of citizens’ suspicions about the Legislature — that the only principle that seems to guide the Legislature is hypocrisy.”
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