PCAOB tries to make disciplinary hearings and related proceedings public.

The PCAOB has been directed to develop a proposal to send to Congress a request that it consider a change to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that would enable the PCAOB's disciplinary hearings and related proceedings to be made public. The hearings and proceedings are currently required to be nonpublic unless the Board finds good cause to make them public and all parties consent to open them to the public.

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Public disciplinary hearings would conform to the longstanding practice at the SEC for public...