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• would have an executive session? PRANKE: Yes, that's totally wrong. They can say I would like to go into executive session but then the board needs to meet but that's not the way it's written and most boards have taken it to say okay, the County Charter is what we go by, not the Sunshine Law but the Sunshine Law is a law of general applicability. It applies to all states, all state agencies, all county agencies that hold regular meetings. IRVINE: It sounded to me though, like you were complaining about the way that these commissions here ran their meetings because they're not really in compliance with the Charter as it is now. You know what I mean? PRANKE: Well, that may be too. Yes, that may be too. I find it very difficult to swallow sometime when we go there and they go into executive session based simply on the fact that somebody asked. That may also be a violation of the County Charter too, but certainly just going in on the request of somebody. They say I would like to go into executive session. There's a whole lot of paper here but in essence, in one of these executive minutes, the person asking for the executive, or in the general minutes, the person asking for the executive session says he asked Rudy, meaning Rudy Legaspi in this case, told me to ask for it and so that's what I want to do. They had no reason for it, I mean there was no specific personal thing. I don't want to know somebody's personal information. I think what I was looking for, I'm sorry, 13.5. There's something in this that tends to - RAY Page 30. PRANKE: Page what? RAY: 30. PRANKE: Yes, that's records, okay, I'm sorry. There was something in here that I think might have been a technical error. In the second sentence it says 'Where personal matters affecting the privacy of an individual are to be considered'. There's a difference between personal and personnel and in the executive, in the reasons for going into executive session, 92-5, it says 'a board may hold a closed meeting to consider and evaluate personal information relating to individuals applying for professional or vocational licenses'. We don't have too much of that going on and the Police Commission is not doing that. When they say it's personal, that's not quite correct. My name is personal but it's not private. I think that was meant to say personnel but I don't know that. I think there's a typo in there that followed through from, probably from the beginning of the Charter. But nowhere in there does it say personal information. Privacy is considered but personal is probably not a good word to use in there. I'm sorry, I go on and on.