San Clemente City Councilmember Laura Ferguson announced Sept. 17 that she will be suing both the city and some of her fellow councilmembers over access to public records regarding her formal censure last year. Ferguson was censured by her fellow councilmembers in Nov. 2020 after she publicly criticized the city government, and also for releasing a poll that was commissioned by the city that was not allowed to be released yet due to it being an attorney work product. The poll sought to determine how a new ballot measure that would create a new tax to protect coastlines would do with voters, and Ferguson argued that public records law did not allow the city to keep it confidential. Named in the suit are the City of San Clemente, Mayor Pro Tem Gene James, Mayor Kathy Ward, former Councilmember Chris Hamm, and City Manager Erik Sund. The lawsuit asks that the …