Sky Leila urges Lake County to offer cannabis-regulation seminars after permit and tax dispute

Sky Leila, who identified herself as representing Pillsbury Family Farms, told the Lake County Board of Supervisors during public comment that the county should hold public seminars and provide cannabis regulatory consulting to other counties after what she described as mishandling of an applicant's personal information and a tangled tax-refund dispute.

"Let's start with holding public seminars," Sky Leila said, outlining a series of proposed trainings for planners, tax collectors and sheriff's departments on how Lake County handled a case in which an applicant's Social Security number was exposed in government records and subsequent attempts to obtain a police report. She said the county accepted "$50,000 in cannabis grant funding toward our cultivation taxes" and later accepted an additional tax payment after a refund, and urged transparency around those decisions.

Leila also accused county officials of refusing to recognize expungements granted by other California courts, saying, "Only an expungement from our own court system deserves the consideration" and criticizing a culture of silence in which officials did not provide written explanations for decisions. She recommended seminars for planners on what records they are authorized to receive and for sheriff's departments on background checks and treatment of expungements.

The chair closed Leila's three-minute comment without response from staff or other officials during the public-comment period. The transcript records no formal county reply in this segment.