ACLU Sues Over Cuts To Public Comment Supervisory Board: Orange County Board of Supervisors is the target of a lawsuit filed by the ACLU in their policies for public consultation. The complaint was filed on behalf of William Denis Fitzgerald, a resident of Anaheim, who spoke before the Commission on numerous occasions. On August 23, 2011, public comments were interrupted by President Bill Fitzgerald Supervisor Janet Nguyen Campbell to allow the derogatory statements about immigrants Vietnamese. The suit, filed in Federal Court, asks that the County be ordered to revise its commenting policy to ensure that commenters are allowed to comment without interruption regardless of the content of their words. Voice of OC was the first to report the story here. Claudia Alvarez Santa Ana Councilwoman Claudia Alvarez “Photo: Chris Prevatt” I’m not really sure that the Federal Court would have jurisdiction in this matter as the public comment rules the county operates under are covered by the state’s open meeting law, the Brown Act. I wonder why the ACLU is the interruption of the inflammatory comments of Fitzgerald to be a problem, not the cut microphoneby a speaker Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez last year because he could say anything derogatory Mayor Miguel Pulido.
If I remember correctly, Fitzgerald actually attended the next meeting of the Santa Ana to punish their actions.
If I remember correctly, Fitzgerald actually attended the next meeting of the Santa Ana to punish their actions. 
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