Politics & Government
Report: Assembly Drops $200K Fighting Spending Records Suit
The lawsuits sparked by Assemblyman Anthony Portantino's protest over having his budget slashed as "retaliation" for a vote wound up costing the Assembly nearly $200,000 to fight, The Sacramento Bee reports.
The California State Assembly did not want it's legislator's office budgets made public knowledge, and it spent $200,000 in legal fees and other expenses trying to keep it under wrap, according to a report in the Sacramento Bee.
The fight over budget transparency was sparked by the claims of local Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-La Canada Flintridge, that .
After Portantino's public records request to see office budgets for each legislator was denied, a . A judge disagreed with the Assembly's interpretation of the law and ordered that they release the records to the newspapers.
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The Assembly spent $123,945 fighting the suit and was ordered to cover about $75,000 in legal fees accrued by the newspapers when it lost in court, according to the Sacramento Bee report.
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