COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYS NO BROWN ACT VIOLATIONS IN TWENTYNINE PALMS

The San Bernardino County District Attorney has decided it will not take any action in alleged Brown Act violations in Twentynine Palms. Reporter Dan Stork reviews the DA’s determinations…
Following the departure of former City Manager Richard Warne, and the hiring of Joe Guzetta as his replacement, Dan O’Brien of Twentynine Palms complained to the San Bernardino County District Attorney of multiple instances of violations of the state’s public meeting laws. In the first of a pair of letters from the office of D.A. Michael Ramos to O’Brien, which have been made available to Z107.7, Ramos writes that the Public Integrity Office decided that there was no Brown Act violation in one circumstance described by O’Brien, and that, with regard to a second complaint, “the city has agreed to cure and correct its previous action in the manner consistent with the requirements under the Brown Act.” In a second letter from Ramos to O’Brien, the DA said that a San Diego case that O’Brien had cited in support of his complaints was inapplicable to the situation in Twentynine Palms. The second letter reiterated that the DA’s office considered the matter closed.