Suzanne Cohen: Lobbyists Shouldn’t Be Able to Walk Halls of Local Government in Anonymity
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I spent four years running a political organization in Santa Barbara County, and the most useful thing I learned was whose phone calls get returned. In 2020, the Santa Barbara County Civil Grand Jury, a group of regular citizens who investigate local government, looked into how the county’s cannabis…
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I spent four years running a political organization in Santa Barbara County, and the most useful thing I learned was whose phone calls get returned. In 2020, the Santa Barbara County Civil Grand Jury, a group of regular citizens who investigate local government, looked into how the county’s cannabis…
In 2020 the Santa Barbara County Civil Grand Jury, looked into how the cannabis ordinances were written and found that industry representatives and their lobbyists had "nearly unfettered access" to the Board of Supervisors, and that access "was undisclosed to the public."
