Freitas v. Administrative Director of the Courts

Dissenting opinion by

ACOBA, J.

I respectfully dissent as to the partial majority opinion in Part III, upholding the ID procedure of the Administrative Driver’s License Revocation Office (ADLRO). The ID procedure constituted an unconstitutional limitation on Freitas’s right to a public hearing. The partial opinion in Part III, sanctioning as it does a sign-in procedure at public hearings, will have a deleterious and potentially inhibiting effect on the right to attend similar hearings freely and openly and without needless restriction, but more troubling, it diverts focus in any particular case…