Your guide to the 'Net, gadgets, games and more. Attorney General John Tarantino said yesterday he plans to proceed with legal action against the University of Guam Board of Regents, which he said voted illegally in selecting the university president. Tarantino has said that regents violated the open government law when they voted in secret to offer Peter Lee the job during an executive session Aug. 2. In his letter to the Legislature, Gutierrez said the legislation emphasizes the attorney general's view that voting of all matters in executive session should take place in public. Pangelinan yesterday said the recently passed law is necessary because he said Guam's open government law makes no reference as to whether voting can occur.
Guam law is silent on that issue.
At the Aug. 2 UOG meeting, eight regents were present, including acting board member Enrique Castro, who had not yet been confirmed. Voting was done by secret ballot with five votes for Lee. After receiving a legal opinion from the attorney general that the selection was illegal because Castro was not confirmed, the board met again Aug. 24 to reaffirm its selection of Lee. Lee again received five votes, with Castro not voting. The attorney general sued the board for failing to follow his legal opinion.