Grand jury fines Pa. officials for sunshine law violations
The Lancaster County, Pa., commissioners
pleaded guilty Thursday to violating the state Sunshine Act by holding secret
meetings pertaining to the sale of a nursing home.
Upon the recommendation of a countywide investigating grand jury,
commissioners Dick Shellenberger and Pete Shaub each were cited twice and Molly
Henderson was cited once.
The commissioners’ citations were the only
punitive actions recommended by a grand jury that spent the past year
investigating both the sale of the county nursing home in 2005 and the hiring of
Gary Heinke, the county’s former chief human services officer, according to
District Attorney Donald Totaro.
The commissioners are the county’s first elected officials
in memory to be charged with Sunshine Act violations.
Read more in the Intelligencer Journal.