Article: Waiting to obtain city's staff reports

NORCO - Can the public get a staff report before the City Council, commissions or boards receive them?

The answer is yes, said Katherine Keating, general counsel for the California First Amendment Coalition.

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It's pretty hard to justify not doing so, she said.

This calls into question a policy employed by the city of Norco that might be in violation of the California Public Records Act. After negotiations broke down last month between city officials and Maverick Steakhouse owner Rob Koziel, planning commissioners asked to see all correspondence between the two parties in a staff report.

The city initiated hearings to revoke the ...

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