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The Open Meetings Act (OMA) is a related Illinois statute that grants to all persons the right to attend meetings in which public business is discussed. "Public bodies", defined similarly as in FOIA, are required to provide advance notice of meetings to the public and maintain minutes for public inspection. All discussions of public business ...
The Kansas Attorney General’s Office has found the Johnson County Commission ... the AG’s office found that the closed session was in compliance with the open meetings act and was solely held ...
The Holder Memo is part of series of policy memos on how federal agencies should apply FOIA exemptions. Beginning in 1977 with Attorney General Griffin Bell, and continued by Attorney General William French Smith in 1981 and Attorney General Janet Reno in 1993, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced how the executive branch should approach FOIA, its application, and DOJ's defense of ...
Unlike the Open Meetings Act, FOIA does not authorize state's attorneys to bring charges for violations. Instead, requesters enforce FOIA on their own, acting as private attorney general . [ 160 ] The requester may appeal by filing litigation in the circuit court , and there is no deadline for the requester to file suit. [ 161 ]
Attorney Mark Brewer argues before the Michigan Court of Appeals on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, as Ottawa County corporate counsel David Kallman, right, listens. ... 2022 (the day after the general ...
The Oklahoma Board of Education took no action on a proposed lawsuit designed to keep legislators out of the board's executive sessions
The Piedmont Park Conservancy is a private non-profit that oversees and manages Piedmont Park.In 2007, when the organization moved forward with a plan to install a controversial parking structure, a group opposed to the plan—Friends of Piedmont Park—filed an open record request under Georgia Georgia's open records legislationn [1] for records of the Conservancy.
At a follow-up meeting on Oct. 7, 2020, the council again went into closed session to hear recommendations from engineering firm Ruekert Mielke, hired by Tyco, on handling the contaminated sludge ...