Don’t let the FPPC gut due process: Susan Shelley

“Political reform” needs reform in California, but instead, it’s about to be made even worse.
On Monday, a committee of the Fair Political Practices Commission, the independent state agency created by the 1974 ballot measure that enacted the Political Reform Act, will consider a staff recommendation to wipe out certain protections that currently are required as part of the process of protecting the rights of people who may be wrongly accused.
For example, one change would end t