It's interesting on the one hand, that our state legislators believe they are exempt from the Public Disclosure Act and had to hire private attorneys to fight it in court (and lose). The judge asked the state AG's office to file a friend of the court brief, because it would be normal in such situations for the AG to defend the state legislators in a court proceeding. However, the AG's office declined, saying they disagreed with the legislators claim that they could keep their public records secret and actually agreed with the media groups (newspapers) who are suing the Legislature to open up such records.

Yet the same AG's office, or its representatives for WDFW believe it's appropriate for the agency to violate the Open Public Meetings Act and negotiate in secret with the tribes at NOF while shutting out the very constituency who fund their existence and ability to be participants in NOF.

Weird.