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For the third year in a row, California lawmakers are trying to undermine the open-meeting law that for more than seven decades has mandated transparency for local government panels like city councils ...

A Wisconsin town chairman has resigned after facing criticism for limiting public comment and removing residents from ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed a lawsuit against the Caddo Commission and seven commissioners for allegedly violating the state's open meetings law. The lawsuit alleges the commission ...

From the Bay Area News Group: For the third year in a row, California lawmakers are trying to undermine the open-meeting law that for more than seven decades has mandated transparency for local ...

I was a fairly new member of the Worcester School Committee and the budget was so tight that we were facing teacher layoffs. Trying to find money to put more teachers in classrooms, I proposed a major ...

For the third year in a row, California lawmakers are trying to undermine the open-meeting law that for more than seven decades has mandated transparency for local government panels like city councils ...

Hempstead Town Supervisor John Ferretti must testify at an Oct. 8 hearing on whether his appointment to the job last month violated New York State Open Meetings Law, a state Supreme Court judge ruled ...

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans (5th Cir.) to rehear a case in which a panel of the court questioned the constitutionality of the ...