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Letter to the Editor: Judges Lack Objectivity in Open Meeting Issue

2013-03-08 11:40:49 AM

I compliment you upon the Recorder article concerning Judicial Council secrecy ("Behind Closed Doors," Feb. 25).

I made a mistake 15 years ago in excluding the judiciary from my legislative overhaul of the Brown Act and its comparable state open meeting statutes. The attitude of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Fourth District Justice Doug Miller and others infuriates me. How can they be expected to rule objectively on open meeting disputes?

Quentin Kopp

San Francisco

Editor's note: Quentin Kopp is a retired judge of the San Mateo County Superior Court.

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