Transparency advocates scored a victory last week when the Marin County Board of Supervisors agreed to hand over some, but not all, of a series of documents related to a short-lived, streamside ordinance passed in 2013.
The agreement ended a lawsuit filed in 2014 by retired environmental attorney David Schnapf and the First Amendment Coalition, which sought the disclosure of 69 documents that include drafts of the ordinance and notes written by Supervisors Katie Rice…