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OC Board Of Supervisors To Change Meeting Rules After ACLU Lawsuit – CBS Los Angeles

OC Board Of Supervisors To Change Meeting Rules After ACLU Lawsuit – CBS Los Angeles

Jessica Lane January 13, 2021

SANTA ANA (CBSLA) – Public speaking rules at the Orange County Board of Supervisors’ meetings will change due to a settlement approved Tuesday with the American Civil Liberties Union.

The A.C.L.U. filed the lawsuit in 2019 on behalf of the People’s Homeless Task Force O.C. The lawsuit alleged that the board’s rules that speakers must provide their names and direct their comments to the chair of the board and not individual supervisors violated the state’s law on public meetings, known as the Brown Act, as well as the state and federal constitutions.

“Orange County’s supervisors were treating their meetings like something out of a monarchy,” said A.C.L.U. attorney Peter J. Eliasberg. “It was a royal court where criticism directed at individual supervisors could not be heard. This was clearly unlawful.”

The A.C.L.U. said requiring speakers to provide their name had a “chilling effect on political speech.”

Michael Robbins, president of the People’s Homeless Task Force O.C., said, “The Orange County Board of Supervisors has a history of suppressing public comment, which continues to this day. With the settlement of this lawsuit, our organization expects that, to some extent, future public comments are permitted and respected.”

Orange County Board Chairman Andrew Do said it was worth it to just settle the lawsuit.

“We just have to move on,” he said. “There are so many important tasks for us, especially in this (COVID-19) crisis with so much going on and people depending on us to keep things going and to open up the economy. We can’t just let a few people distract us from the work at hand.”

Do also noted that some of the board’s critics have taken a racist tone at times with comments that the Asian-American supervisors don’t understand democracy.

“Caustic I can take, but outright racism, that is harder to take,” Do said. “When they make comments and hone in on the three non-white supervisors and make comments about us and say things like we don’t know democracy and things like that it’s obvious the intent is to be racist.”

Do praised Supervisor Don Wagner for criticizing racist slurs and race-baiting rhetoric made in past meetings.

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