Ain't no sunshine: Examining informality and state open meetings acts as the anti-public norm in inner-city redevelopment deal making

PA Crowder - Tenn. L. Rev., 2006 - HeinOnline
… of open meetings acts to require more open meetings, specifically including the meetings of
… Part IV examines the structure and scope of open meetings acts and identifies loopholes in …

Texas Open Meetings Act: Constitutional

S Houston - Tex. Tech. Admin. LJ, 2011 - HeinOnline
… Study the Public Information Act and the Open Meetings Act to ensure that government
continues to operate in a way that is open and transparent. The study should consider how …

The Kansas open meeting act: Sunshine on the sunflower state

DR Tacha - U. Kan. L. Rev., 1976 - HeinOnline
… in the existing Kansas Open Meetings Act.10 In anticipation of legislative consideration of
the Kansas Open Meetings Act and of the proposed amendments to the Act, this Article will …

The Illinois Open Meetings Act: A Reappraisal

AM Sussman - S. Ill. ULJ, 1978 - HeinOnline
… This article will suggest as a solution, an interpretation of the Open Meetings Act which
focuses on the stage of the decision making process, rather than the approach presently in use …

Behind closed doors: re-examining the Tennessee open meetings act and its inapplicability to the Tennessee General Assembly

J Bowen - Colum. JL & Soc. Probs., 2001 - HeinOnline
… the naivety of arguing that the Open Meetings Act applies to the legislature: "The one thing
. . . that might be a little naive is that the Open Meetings Act is a legislative enactment, and the …

The Texas Open Meetings Act: In Need of Modification or All Systems Go

M Duncan - Tex. Tech. Admin. LJ, 2007 - HeinOnline
… Following that discussion, this comment will sample various open meetings acts from other
states. Finally, it will provide possible suggestions and potential solutions for making TOMA …

Do Public Officials Leave Their Constitutional Rights at the Ballot Box-A Commentary on the Texas Open Meetings Act

D Helfmeyer - Tex. J. on CL & CR, 2009 - HeinOnline
… ("The Texas Open Meetings Act, like the open meetings laws in all 50 states and the federal
government, promotes the First Amendment goals of open government and rigorous debate …

[PDF][PDF] An analytic framework for open meetings and transparency

SJ Piotrowski, E Borry - Public Administration and Management, 2010 - researchgate.net
… of open meetings that are the most important with respect to transparency. We present a
comparison of state open meeting laws … the nine exemptions to the Open Public Meetings Act. 1. …

Sunshine in Mississippi: The Open Meetings Act

L Van Slyke, T Rushing - Miss. LJ, 1990 - HeinOnline
… The purpose of this article is to update the reader on the current status of the Open Meetings
Act, including the interpretations placed upon it by the recent decisions of the Mississippi …

[PDF][PDF] Office of the Attorney General

OM Act - 2016 - foiapac.ilag.gov
… [A]n open or closed meeting subject to this Act may be conducted by audio or video
conference, without the physical presence of a quorum of the members, so long as the following …