Secession Group Sues for Access to Documents
Charging that the city of Los Angeles has been stonewalling requests to turn over documents important to secession studies, proponents of harbor-area cityhood filed a lawsuit Friday to force the release of records.
The Harbor Study Foundation filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court seeking an order to force Mayor Richard Riordan and other city officials to turn over records, including business tax data, legal descriptions of the city’s port and revenue reports on gas and oil pipelines.
The lawsuit asks the court to order the city to deliver the documents within 10 days.
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