SACRAMENTO — Bowing to political pressure, the Judicial Council on Thursday unveiled draft rules of court that would declare its many policy committees and advisory panels “presumptively” open to the public.
But it’s unclear how significantly the eight-page proposal would change the judiciary’s current policy-making practices. The first draft includes 17 broad exemptions, including provisions allowing leaders to close meetings to consider legislative strategy, “raw” data and statistics, and matters “that will not be included in a report to the Judicial Council.”
