REGAN ADMITS SUNSHINE VIOLATIONS: Ex-Mayors BOLES-WEEKS-Dominated City Visioning Process

I texted City of St. Augustine City Manager JOHN PATRICK REGAN, P.E. about repeated Sunshine violations, 2013-2015, by City visioning process, to wit, steering committee meetings with small group discussions inaudible to the public, news media and television viewers on either cable tv or streaming video. He was in the room, and admitted at 4:32 PM that he could not hear discussions and he was in the room.

AGAIN:
Small group discussions at meetings violate the Sunshine laws. As the Florida Attorney General's Government in the Sunshine Manual states:

"discussions ...by members of the board or commission which are audible only to those seated at the table may violate the “openness” requirement of the law. AGO 71-159. Cf. City of Miami Beach v. Berns, 245 so. 2d 38, 41 (Fla. 1971), in which the Florida Supreme Court observed: “a secret meeting occurs when public officials meet at a time and place to avoid being seen or heard by the public.”….a violation of the sunshine law may occur if, during a recess of a public meeting, board members discuss issues before the board in a manner not generally audible to the public attending the meeting. although such a meeting is not clandestine, it nonetheless violates the letter and spirit of the law. Rackleff v. Bishop, no. 89-235 (Fla. 2d Cir. Ct. march 5, 1990). And see AGO 71-159, stating that discussions of public business which are audible only to “a select few” who are at the table with the board members may violate the “openness” requirement of the law.






CITY MANAGER JOHN PATRICK REGAN AND, P.E., et ux., FELICIA REGAN and oleaginous government contractor pals caught on Facebook. Viva the 1%!