The information about the Fifth District “Fristian” Commissioner Richard Briggs objecting several days after the meeting adjourned about a possible Sunshine law violation is quite amusing.

The Sentinel is attempting to blow it out proportion. They have this photograph in today’s paper. So if their photographer was that close, then he/she heard the content of the meeting. Thus the meeting was held in the open.

As a matter of fact, Commissioner Scott Moore was appointed to chair the Committee on Committees meeting by Commission Chairman Tank Strickland. Moore said where everyone could hear it, everyone being commissioners, the citizens and county employees in attendance and the television audience. So you want us to go over here in the back of the room. And Strickland said Yes. Briggs did not object at the time.