News School Closure
Open-government activist, and self-styled attorney, Chris Clifford, will be arguing tomorrow morning in King County Superior court (in his lawsuit against the Seattle Pubic School District and all 15 members of the Community Advisory Committee) that the committee violated the state Open Meetings Act by holding multiple closed meetings over the Memorial Day holiday weekend to hammer out its school closure plan.
From the conclusion of Clifford’s complaint: “If allowed to do this, other jurisdictions will hide decision making within the confines of appointed ‘advisory’ committees. The public will loose [sic] control of those devices created by them, and created to work for them.”
What does this guy want the school district to do, rent out Safeco field for every damn meeting they hold in which a decision might be made?
We live in a republic. Get over your control issues and let our elected representatives do their job. The alternative is an expensive and paralyzed bureaucracy that serves no one.