Rename Clay Park and Clay Elementary (San Diego)

Critics had pointed out that the district left it up to a renaming committee to recommend a new name — but that committee’s membership was kept secret and its meetings were hidden from the public.

Last year, in response to questions about why the new committee’s information was not public, a district spokesperson had told The San Diego Union-Tribune that the panel was not subject to the Brown Act, the state’s transparency law for public bodies.

The spokesperson said that’s because it was a “staff-level advisory committee” under the direction of the superintendent, rather than of the board. But trustees said the committee was supposed to be subject to the Brown Act, because it was mandated by the board.

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