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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Spokesman-Review: Record Them Anyway

The Spokesman-Review writes this editorial urging local governments to record their executive sessions anyway, even if the municipalities' lobbyists successfully killed the taping bill this year.

Writes the S-R: "If not, perhaps they could at least explain what they have to hide."

Local governments won't record their executive sessions and they won't lift a finger to explain what the have to hide.

After all, who's going to sue them for an Open Public Meetings Act violation? That never happens ...