Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is taking legal action against the Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) Governing Board and its former president, claiming they violated the state’s open meeting law by restricting public comments on a mask-mandate proposal in August 2021.
Brnovich filed the 13-page civil suit in Maricopa County Superior Court on June 20.
The lawsuit accuses the board and then-president Jann-Michael Greenburg of “knowingly applying unauthorized content-based restrictions on public comment” made during a board meeting on April 17, 2021, and “knowingly cutting off or otherwise interrupting speakers during a call to the public.”
According to the suit, on Aug. 17 the SUSD board held a virtual meeting to discuss the district’s instructional time model for 2021-22 and whether to require masks for students and staff. The board decided to discuss both topics separately….