Tulare County is asking to be reimbursed for court costs in a case brought by the Time-Delta/Advance-Register and the California Newspaper Publishers Association. The newspaper interests lost the case in 2010, and the County is claiming that the suit was “clearly frivolous and lacking in merit.”
The lawsuit claimed that the Tulare County Board of Supervisors violated the Brown Act, the state’s open meeting law, in holding closed door lunch meetings the supervisors claimed were for morale-building purposes. -db
From the Tulare Advance-Register, March 30, 2012, by Valerie Gibbons.