Due to the Brown Act, the Supervisors are not supposed to talk about county matters unless all are present in a public setting -- like at a board meeting. Outside of that no more than two are supposed to engage with each other at any time.
Imagine trying to manage treasuries for 440,000 people and 5,000 employees with no ability to talk in private with your 4 other co-managers. If insanity had a name it would be this Five Supervisor System now.
In a high trust society where commercial crime was not rampant and the governing systems started at the neighborhood level with the supervisors being a step or few up from local burrows or granges this might make sense. However that is NOT California anymore.
This system left the counties open to Commercial Fraud at epic scale.
Corporations, Law firms and anyone seeking to run commercial frauds in the county knows there is no way for the county's most outward facing leaders to even have dialogue in private without possibly facing charges themselves from the voters. Thus if you were a fraudster you would be the one monitoring for and screaming about Brown Act Violations whenever they were even a remote possibility.
Thus, for anyone to bring up things like "industry wide fraud in the real estate brokerage and legal lobby industry related to CIV 1102 legislative fraud executed in 1985" or "industry wide legal lobby fraud related to CCP 1032 and 1033.5 modifications in 1985" or the "PRA of 1974" that provided civil servants too much privacy -- a county resident -- not a supervisor -- would have to make a public presentation to all five in an open meeting -- and then any future dialogue would have to be as part of "regular county business dialogue" - which will NEVER happen for systemic frauds and the corporations, the legal lobby and others have exploited this to no end.
In 2019 a bizarre POU / POE Ordinance was presented whereby County Supervisors were trying to use "the cost of cases of bottled water" to justify an ordinace mandating in home filtration. They were giving fascism a new look while totally ignoring water kiosks, the lowest cost water solution by far -- and the place most buy water if they want or need to. That stimulated a desire to put all Supervisors notice at the same time, but then COVID hit and everything was forgotten for a while.
Then in 2021, Coldwell Banker and Keller Williams provided a Real Estate Contract that stated a sellers disclosure of condition was NOT due to buyers until AFTER a contract was ratified. That turned into a the exposure of a 40 year Real Estate Brokerage and Legal Lobby Racket .
In 2024, it was time to start notifying Supervisors of the fraud and when none were responsive, and more problems started coming out with the Superior Court System and none were responsive and when Attorney Fee Shifting from a contract that was never formed properly or at all - led to a shift of Attorney fees for a voluntary dismissal everythign turnd into a system test.
The goal was to make sure no supervisor could state they were not aware of county wide problems -- while seeing if any of the problems presented to all five at the same time might get resolved.
In addition, when problems with Glenn Church's behavior came up, the goal was to make sure the other 4 Supervisors were aware of concerns - such that if problems with Church eventually had to become public --the excuse of "but the Brown Act prevented me from...." would be void given they were notified directly -- while taking home $180,000 paychecks for county management that was being done properly by no-one.
Below is an index of 100 emails that were copied to District 1 Supervisor Luis Alejo, District 2 Supervisor Glenn Church, District 3 Supervisor Chris Lopez , District 4 Supervisor Wendy Root-Askew and District 5 Supervisor who has since retired. . Many of these detail county wide management concerns as well as commercial, judicial and legal lobby frauds. None of them have been remedied by any of the Supervisors to date and in fact, when notified of Church's SEI 700 Perjury due to Bifurcated disclosure filings -- with methods for proving it to themselves -- and a requirement to report to authorities while leaving of with regular meetings, they all ignored those emails as well.
What you should be able to see just from the titles and a few words alone should give rise to great concerns county and state wide.