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Q: I recently attended a board meeting of the Grossmont Healthcare District. A staff person from the Sharp Grossmont Hospital gave a 15 min. update/report on several topics hospital (e.g., new employee and medical staff satisfaction surveys/results–and patient satisfaction regarding emergency dept. and inpatient services on different floors of hospital. At the end of the hospital staff person’s pptI asked if a copy would be available for the audience. The response from the District CEO was

Q:  A group of community members drafted a petition to place on Change.org, requesting an audit of a county department.  After receiving several thousand signatures, the results, broken out by supervisorial district, were sent to each county supervisor. One supervisor replied that these matters have been addressed. “Therefore, neither I nor my colleagues on the Board of Supervisors believe an independent audit is warranted.” This may be a stretch, but it appears that the matter was

Q:  In response to public comment that I made before the school board, the school district’s Charter School Division sent an email to a charter school asking for data so that they could report back to the Board.  I sent a Public Records Act request to the District asking for a copy of the report that was generated using this data. The school district has informed me that the records that I requested are exempt

Q: The city’s communication offices refuses to add us to their official media e-mail list, that sends information and notices about events the mayor will attend or news conferences. The office also purposely refuses to answer our calls and e-mails, based on our legitimate news coverage. What recourse do we have to at least compel them to add us to their news e-mail list? We had a direct conversation (which was recorded with permission) asking

Q: I sent a personal email the day before the election to friends, neighbors and people I knew through my children. It was a reminder to get out and vote with personal opinions of all four candidates. I mentioned the publisher of our local paper by name with one of the candidates. Someone in my email chain forwarded my private email to the publisher/editor. The publisher then copied the town officials and candidates demanding I apologize