Agreements on open meetings violations include damages; agencies across the country have been paying costs, promising openness

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State and local agencies in a number of states have been conceding violations of open meeting laws and settling lawsuits brought to enforce openness in government laws. Actions against the Utah Senate and against local agencies in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Florida and West Virginia are discussed. The violations charged are focused on private informal meetings, failure to provide public notice, failure to justify meeting closure and deciding public business in private.

Florida, Remedies, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, West Virginia, Sunshine laws

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Newspaper cannot sue for 'past' actions under state Open Meetings Act

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The California Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Superior Court that the right of action under the state's Open Meetings Act regarded not past actions but only present and future ones. A college newspaper was thus barred from suing then-Governor Pete Wilson and the Regents if the University of California under the state's Open Meetings Act.

California, Government information

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