FAC sent this letter to the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors urging it to reject San Mateo Sheriff Christina Corpus’s request to close her removal hearing to the public.
The letter states: “Barring the press and public from the Removal Hearing as Sheriff Corpus has requested would violate the First Amendment right of access to public proceedings, undermine a panoply of compelling public interests in administering the Removal Hearing transparently, and needlessly shut San Mateo citizens out of a key phase of a process they voted to begin in Measure A.”