With the 2010 Legislative session right around the corner, we’ve been busy finalizing our AGO request legislation. As you know, last year the state’s budget situation made it very difficult to move bills, so we were pleased that many of our consumer protection, community safety, and open government priorities were approved by the Legislature.

I’m sending this special edition of the McKenna Must Read because I’m receiving many questions from citizens about the issue of whether or not names on referendum petitions are public. I thought you might find it useful to hear directly from me on this issue.