Arizona attorney general sues Scottsdale Unified over 2021 public meetings

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — Arizona Lawyer Common Mark Brnovich, who’s working for U.S. Senate, is suing the Scottsdale Unified Faculty District and its former president over how they dealt with the talk over a COVID-19 masks mandate. In keeping with the lawsuit filed Monday, the board and ex-president Jann-Michael Greenburg structured conferences in August 2021, so public touch upon the masks mandate was restricted. Board members are accused of chopping audio system off throughout time for feedback. Brnovich claims it violates the state’s Open Assembly Regulation.

The assembly on Aug. 17, 2021, was digital and on the time Greenburg stated there was time for public remark however just for the educational time mannequin for the 2021-2022 college 12 months. The lawsuit stated he’d finish any public assertion that wasn’t on that matter. “The board repeatedly reduce off any speaker at any time when Greenburg decided that the subject mentioned too removed from the 2021-2022 insturctional time mannequin,” violating state legislation, the lawsuit stated. Brnovich says through the Aug. 23, 2021, assembly, the identical restrictions have been made, violating state legislation.

The Lawyer Common’s Workplace stated it obtained complaints from mother and father concerning the restrictions relating to feedback and took that to the board in December 2021. SUSD responded and stated it was inside its proper to have these restrictions, based on the lawsuit. Arizona’s Household reached out to Scottsdale Unified for its tackle the lawsuit and officers stated they responded to Brnovich’s workforce in December 2021, saying simply because it’s a public assembly, it doesn’t have to permit folks to make feedback on any matter. SUSD’s letter to the Lawyer Common’s Workplace factors to the place someone offered false details about literature at Chaparral Excessive Faculty and needed to be stopped with right info. As for Monday’s lawsuit, officers stated they don’t touch upon pending litigation.

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