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Friday, February 29, 2008
County Might Change Its Ways on Open Meetings
This story from the (Aberdeen) Daily World tells why Grays Harbor County might start providing meeting notices and agendas for their "staff meetings" with commissioners. They are considering this because Tim Ford, the Attorney General's Open Government Ombudsman, suggested in a letter that the county's current practice might violate the Open Public Meetings Act.