BAVC Charged With Willful Violation of Sunshine Ordinance-Refuses To Provide Documents

BAVC Charged With Willful Violation of Sunshine Ordinance-Refuses To Provide Documents To Public
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The San Francisco SUNSHINE ORDINANCE TASK FORCE COMPLIANCE AND AMENDMENTS COMMITTEE
on August 10, 2010 unanimously voted to turn over the Sunshine Ordinance willful violation by the
Bay Area Video Coalition BAVC to the San Francisco Ethics Commission for action on their continuing
violation of the Sunshine Ordinance. The Sunshine Ordinance Rules require from BAVC and all contractors
with the City and County Of San Francisco that do more than $200,000 of business with the City and County
of San Francisco to provide documents and correspondence directly to the public if requested. This ruling of
a willful violation of the Sunshine Ordinance potentially puts the contract by BAVC to run San Francisco two
community access channels in jeopardy. They also previously gave false testimony to the San Francisco Rules
Committee concerning a complaint against them for refusing to turn over documents. They apparently do not
believe they do not have to comply with regulations requiring public information rights although they are getting
hundreds of thousands of dollars from the City and County of San Francisco.
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Newsom's Department of Technology which is supposed to do oversight of contractors has
ignored these ongoing violations of City regulations although every staff member of the department signs
documents saying they agree and will comply with the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance.
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