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# Seeing through the haze
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/entertainment-12-thursday-may-31-2007-a-newspaper-with-issues-mothers-protest-vulgar-rap/
- Published: 2007-05-31T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:53:47.000Z
- Author: Kevin Herrera
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

Transparency in government and leadership is a hot topic these days. The public’s need to know is sometimes trumped in favor of privacy.

So this week’s Q-Line question asks: Do you think the City Council was correct in withholding funds from the school district until they address a series of gag orders they put on parents, or is it over-stepping its bounds?

Call (310) 285-8106 before Friday at 5 p.m. and we’ll print your answers in the weekend edition of the Daily Press. Please limit responses to a minute or less.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 31, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/053107.pdf?ref=smdp.com)