Jim Ewert of the California Newspaper Publisher Association said that the Patterson City Council violated the Brown Act, the state’s open meeting act, when it failed to provide the identity of those who voted in a closed session for an interim city attorney.
Ewert said it did not matter that the rankings of candidates occurred during a discussion, that the public had the right to know who voted which way since the council reached a consensus. -db
From the Patterson Irrigator, November 30, 2011, by Nick Rappley.