Politics & Government

RESULTS: How Open Is Gilroy's Government?

For Sunshine Week, we asked readers' to vote on the level of transparency within Gilroy's local government.

For Sunshine Week—a week dedicated to open government, transparency and the freedom of information—we asked locals to .

Joe Kline, public information officer for the city, wrote a blog for Sunshine Week informing readers of the .

In another post, a writer took the issue of transparency away from the government and focused in on the media in a letter to the editor titled,"

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Although it was a close call, the consensus among poll participants is that Gilroy's local government has some work to do. Out of 18 votes, nine people said the city's government isn't even close to transparent, while eight readers voted the opposite way.


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