When they get behind closed doors
The last thing San Bernardino needs now is the appearance of more secrecy, but that's exactly the case with the City Council's handling of Police Chief Mike Billdt. The council tonight is expected to meet with the chief behind closed doors to talk about tensions within the department after a recent rank-and-file vote of no confidence in him.
The agenda item makes reference to a discussion of the safety of public buildings, an obscure workaround of the Brown Act.
Terry Francke, founder of the open-government group Californians Aware, called the loophole "strikingly inappropriate."
Given the secrecy surrounding City Hall's other major headache - the "administrative review" of Operation Phoenix - strikingly arrogant might be a better way to put it.