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Violation of the sunshine ordinance . I move that we find that the failure to release these documents was not a willful failure a willful violation of the sunshine ordinance. Is there a second . Second. All in favor . Aye. Opposed . Motion passed. I also want to say in response it to a number of the members of the public that i understand the frustration with not being able to see what we get to see, what the Controllers Office sees, and what the commissioner itself sees. These investigations are factintensive. The commissioner spends a lot of time on them, and i would really like for you to b...

Comment, is someone following with me sorry. Bottom of page 3. Under Public Comment. Mr. Ng stated that he needed clarification, i believe needed would be better. On page 4, Public Comment, towards the top, my comments stated that the term qualification should be included perhaps in the definition, not into. On the bottom of page 4, item 5, the closed session evaluation of director st. Croix i believe that should also reference the brown act and sunshine ordinance provisions that permit such closed sessions. And there was one other one moment. Well there was one another thing and darned if i c...

Investigative file and the degree to which it could have well been made with good faith and that we have teased apart this particular category of communication within the ethics staff as being the one place where there might be documents that were appropriately disclosed suggests to me that was a reasonable basis. Would any of the commissioners like to hear from mr. St. Croix on this . Yes. I think that would be helpful. Mr. St. Croix, can you come to the podium, please . In terms of the three pages of documents in question once redacted they are rendered meaningless and as such, provide no us...

Were back in open session. Is there a motion to keep the discussions and deliberations relating to the matter that was discussed in confidential session, keep that confidential . That is perhaps not the most el eloquent motion i have ever made. [ laughter ] so moved. Second. Public comment . Hearing none, all in favor . Aye. Opposed . There are none. Mr. St. Croix, can you make the announcements . Finding of probable cause for Ethics Commission complaint 13111013, at its regular meeting of january 28th, 2013, in the matter of ethics complaint 131103,the Ethics Commission made a determination t...

Legislation forward and for us to get so many sponsors for this ordinance. There are many also Community Based organizations that i want to acknowledge for their work in bringing this forward. Asian americans advancing justice, the asian law caucus, bill of rights defense committee, the california imguarantee policy center, [inaudible], just cause, the Central American resource center, [inaudible], chinese for affirmative action, communities against violence, Dolores Community services and [inaudible] Lawyers Committee for civil rights,. [speaking foreign language] , the National Lawyers guild...