California: Proposed Trinity County citizen advisory committee subject to open meeting laws

The Trinity County sheriff wants to establish a volunteer citizens’ advisory committee to review how actions of federal and state authorities affect public health and safety. The county is over 70 percent federal land.

Because the committee would report to the sheriff who would relay the findings to the county board of supervisors, the committee would comply with the Brown Act, the state’s open meeting law. -db

From The Trinity Journal, March 28, 2012, by Sally Morris.

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