The Getty’s Governance Reforms: Still Too Little, Too Late

The J. Paul Getty Trust has now posted the press release about governance reforms that its communications head, Ron Hartwig, had told me was on its website, but wasn’t.
Thanks to CultureGrrl, you can now read it here.
But I am still of the opinion, as expressed in a previous post, that these measures do not go far enough. As I have stated, the Getty should immediately make public a report on the findings of its own internal investigation of its past governance gaffes, and it should purge itself of every administrator and board member who had the responsibility to blow the whistle but didn’t. Going forward, it needs administrators, trustees and a president possessed of the highest administrative, fiscal and artistic acumen, along with spotless reputations for probity.
We’ll just have to wait and see whether the California Attorney General’s office, now wrapping up its own investigation of the Getty, agrees with me. And we’ll also have to see if these public servants believe that the results of the Getty’s internal investigation, submitted to this government enforcement agency, can now properly remain confidential or are required to be open to public examination under Freedom of Information laws. The enterprising LA Times is probably already working on that one.