La Plata Censure Fight Extended to the Meeting's Legality Itself

La Plata Censure Fight Extended to the Meeting's Legality Itself

Two questions have hung over La Plata’s mayoral censure since it passed Aug. 18: whether the council actually had the legal authority to censure Mayor Jeannine James at all, and whether the meeting that produced the censure was itself lawfully conducted. A review of the full meeting recording — not just the resolution or the participants’ public statements — shows both questions were fought over live, on the record, in ways none of the prior cov…