OFFICIAL BROWN ACT COMPLAINT FILED W/LOS ANGELES DISTRICT ATTORNEY OFFICE, re: City Hall ID Check To Attend Council/Committee Meetings - READ HERE:

TWEETS TO TRUTANICH: 

• TRUTANICH: Change city hall cop language at visitor desk, TUES-FOREVER: First words out of cops mouth, "Where r u going?" NOT, "ID please." about 3 hours ago
• TRUTANICH: ZD=runnin' show/suit being written. SO, HERE IS CITY HALL PROCEDURE FOR ALL!: "Where R U going?" If "council"=NO WORDS/GIVE PASS!about 4 hours ago

This complaint was filed, today (02/27/12), with the Los Angeles District Attorney Office, online: 

Dear District Attorney's Office,


HERE IS YouTube VIDEO OF ME APPROACHING VISITOR DESK AT LOBBY OF L.A. CITY HALL on 02/17/12: 




The point IS...you are not required to show ID to enter the city hall for the council meeting...and you are NOT required to be an attorney to state the name of the law.

On February 17, 2012, entered L.A. City Hall and the police officer, behind the visitor desk, asked for my ID. 

I said, "No, not today, thank you."

The officer asked me where I was going. I said the council meeting. 


She insisted for the ID again. I again replied that I did not want to show ID to attend the meeting. 


She called another supervising officer to the desk, who again, asked me where I was going, then asked for ID.  [I got nervous when the one cop called over the second cop. Was I in trouble? Imagine how anyone else would fee?]

I again, had to explain I did not want to show ID. Then he required me to utter the words, "Brown Act," before the other officer would hand me the pass. 

The point is that no ID is required to attend the council meeting. Not that the person, showing up to give public comment or observe the meeting, has to be a legal expert and know the names of the laws. The laws are merely to be followed. 

This was more than anyone should be expected to reasonably endure to be admitted to the council meeting. The request alone has a chilling effect. 

February 21, 2012, I once again entered Los Angeles City Hall, went through the metal check, the walked to the lobby desk for a "visitor" pass, to attend the L.A. City council meeting. 

The officer (a different officer) said, "Let me guess, no ID." I said, "right." She explained, "That's fine." (As in cutting a break/no biggie/slack was being given). Then added, but, the Brown Act applies to the council meeting. This is the lobby. We don't share information. And you are not required to show ID to enter the meeting.

When I said, "That means you have to show ID to enter the meeting," there was some more back and forth. HERE IS THE ENTIRE AUDIO OF THE CONVERSATION: 


Check this out on Chirbit

City Hall strategy appears to be, "We DON'T require ID to attend the meeting. But, due to security issues, everyone must show ID (and the police write the name and address down on paper, as in a record book). And then, they may attend the meeting without showing ID. And since the City Hall lobby doesn't share the information with Council, it's allowed.

However, not requiring ID to attend the meeting, means you don't need to have an ID. BUT, if you need an ID to enter City Hall, that means you cannot enter the council meeting.

Additionally, the process has a chilling effect on anyone who would walk up to City Hall, see a line of people showing ID to the police, or if no line, getting to the lobby desk and having a police officer ask you for ID. 

The City will argue that it is required for security, but if someone breaks the law in city hall, then a cop will detain the person -- AND THAT IS THE POINT IN WHICH YOU ASK FOR ID! 

The officer told me, it was annouced in "roll call," that they WERE going to start REQUIRING ID, with no "Brown Act" proclamations in the lobby, because Brown Act does not apply to the lobby. 

This already has a chilling effect on Zuma Dogg, cause I don't wanna wake up early, leave my beach area, to head all the way to Skid Row adjacent, through gridlock traffic, only to find out, TODAY, is the day the city starts enforcing that ID is required. CAUSE I AIN'T GIVING CITY HALL THE INFO (LIKE MY ADDRESS) -- TO ATTEND THE COUNCIL MEETING!

BOTTOM LINE: There is no way to attend the L.A. City Council meeting without showing identification, FIRST. 

City Hall has a red VISITOR pass (different than the blue VISITOR pass), to distinguish between those going to the council meeting, who did not show ID (and are restricted to the council or committee meeting/cannot go to other floors, or departments). So, WHY do you need to show ID at the door?

ADDITIONALLY, until this month, they have been asking for people's name and address on the public comment cards, without disclosing the information is NOT required -- and that they are public documents, posted online. 

How long is statue of limitations for this violation? Posting addresses online, without saying, "not required," is just about the most outrageous violation I can think of. A lot of BAD people, out there, who can access the info! 

Zuma Dogg
Palabras De La Gente

PREVIEW: Zuma Dogg Public Comment To Chief Beck @ LAPD Police Commission Meeting Over Venice Beach Free Speech Crackdown/LAPD Allocation of Resources!

From the desk of

LAPD POLICE COMMISSIONER MEETING CITY CLERK: "Our next speaker is Zuma (sounding confused) Dogg?"

Zuma Dogg: "Yes, hello LAPD Police Commission. My name, as you and everyone watching on TV knows, is Zuma Dogg. And I represent a HUGE constituency and my LA City News.com blog is currently at record level viewership, in it's five year history.

First of all, I'd like to remind you, I heard Chief Beck say he might have to start taking highly trained LAPD personnel like SWAT officers and Homeland Security and move 'em to street patrol, due to budget cuts in the department.

But, in case you didn't know, Zuma Dogg is the self-appointed "Quality and Productivity Czar" of Los Angeles, published internationally and recognized by top authors and consultants as one of the world's leading experts on the topic of "Methods for Management of Quality and Productivity."

You can laugh all you want, but I have letters from Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Anthony Robbins, a and a slew of Fortune 500 execs who have praised my writings on the topic of "improving efficiency and reducing waste" and my article on the topic was published internationally in "Quality Digest."

So again, laugh all you want, but y'all are the ones who are trippin' all over your shoelaces like a bunch of Three Stooges, Keystone-Bad News Bears cops. YOU are the ones about to be forced to do MUCH MORE with MUCH LESS.

So here's the deal: You take the knucklehead cops you have at Venice Beach, harassing and intimidating the music performers on Ocean Front Boardwalk, in light of the recent Federal ruling...while the cops walk right past the illegal fruit vendors, who by law, are NOT allowed to be there...and have 'em do some other more important shit toward the goal of REAL public safety. Not Zuma Dogg singing, a guy playing cello and Matt Dowd one dollar incense.

The illegal fruit cart situation is escalating on the boardwalk. They are now three and four wide, in the center of the boardwalk, while the vendors have kids stand on the cement walls of the businesses they are set up in front of. (Go to the American Apparel area.)

In addition, the illegal vendors, who by law are not allowed to be there...shout, "Mangoes, Pineapple, Watermelon...Mangoes, Pineapple, Watermelon...Mangoes, Pineapple, Watermelon...," over and over, throughout the music performances. (So the people who just won the right to be there in a Federal lawsuit are being drown out by the illegal vendors, by law NOT allowed to be there -- as the cops walk right past them to harass, intimidate and take away the instruments of the performers.

I hope the cops aren't cultivating a "May Day Melee 2" environment on the beach, by stirring up and instigating problems in peaceful situations. The people on the boardwalk (toursits/vendors/performers/EVERYBODY who watch LAPD taser one too many kid for bullshit reasons -- may eventually have enough, one day and end up acting irrationally in the way they react to the situation.

But, there has been additional information brought to light that I would like to make you aware of, this morning. When asked why the cops REFUSE to do a thing about the illegal food vendors, a cop, frustrated by having his hands tied over the situation, as well, admitted aloud in frustration, "We are under orders from Mayor Villaraigosa not to do anything about it. Don't bother, 'his people.'" (SO INSTEAD...they walk right by and harass and intimidate the performers and anyone else who doesn't look right.

SO I SUGGEST, SINCE YOU ARE CLAIMING IN THE MEDIA YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO TRANSFER THE SWAT TEAM TO STREET PATROL...YOU TAKE THE COPS YOU ALREADY GOT AND HAVE THEM FIGHT CRIME AND LOOK OUT FOR TERRORISM, YOU DUMB MORONS!

And next time LAPD claims someone just called in to complain about a guy playing Bach on an acoustic cello, you tell them, "Sorry, Federal law says one person complaining does not give us the right to take away someone else's 1st Amendment Rights. I know it stinks, but it's the law. And might I add, you chose to move into an apartment that overlooks the boardwalk, you dumb fuck. So why the fuck are you even calling. We're trying to protect you from 46,000 early release prisoners who want to break through your window, attack you and steal your valuables. SORRY, we're running an undercover sting operation on Matt Dowd for his one dollar incense, and Zuma Dogg is about to sing, so we have six officers, two cars and an SUV heading his way. MOVE TO AGOURA HILLS!

Thank you."

CHIEF BECK: "Thank you."

Zuma Dogg (on way out door): "Hoooooooooooody Hooooooooooooooooo! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssss!"
RELATED POSTS TO THIS TOPIC:

CHIEF BECK: Is LAPD Pacific Division Going Out of Their Way To Create "May Day Melee 2" @VeniceBeach? (Sure SEEMS Like It...Better Watch It, CHUMPS!)

Informed Citizen Homework: Read Posts About Current L.A. City Hall FBI Investigations (LONG LIST!) & Illegal Fruit Vendors @ Venice Going to MEDIA!

SUNDAY NIGHT UPDATE: Damn, I got a dream-come-true pair of ZumaCAM glasses with a built in spycam and DVR to record the illegal fruit vending with lookout people, in action, today. But after yesterday's blogging on the matter, I think something may have been done, earlier in the day, before ZD showed up. GOOD! That's why I blog. I tend to not like sitting through nutty, time-wasting, Neighborhood Council hamster-wheel sessions, when I need something done. So here is the "we have lift-off" test video from the ZumaCam video glasses. (These should be fun.) And, YES...I'm STILL showing up to the LAPD police commission on Tuesday to put this issue down, on the record. So start thinking of a reason to cancel the meeting, now.