MONTGOMERY – The Alabama House on Tuesday passed legislation to tighten the state law requiring city councils, county commissions and other governing bodies to meet in public.
The bill, which passed 91-4, would prohibit boards and committees from holding a series of meetings of a few members behind closed doors.
The legislation aims to remove a loophole in legislation approved in 2005 that allows a sub-quorum of two or more members of a board to hold secret meetings. Continue>>>
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