Summary
Utah's legislative auditor general has confirmed what many in the media have known for decades. The state's open meetings law is toothless, and many public bodies treat it as a nuisance that can be ignored with few consequences.
In an audit released last week, the auditor general's office said it found that some local school boards close meetings for reasons not allowed in law, and they fail to keep adequate records of what is said in those meetings. Auditors also found that the folks in the State Office of Education and the Utah School Boards Association who train school board members sometimes give them erroneous information. They have told them, for example, to include as little information as possible in the minutes of closed meetings.See the full content of this document
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An Open Meetings Travesty
That may be convenient for public officials who want to avoid scrutiny, but it is contrary to the law's...
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