
REPORT: Hidden Agendas: Violations of the Open Meetings Act's Public Notice Requirement (February 2016)
Public meeting agendas in RI are often vague and entirely unhelpful to people who want to participate in their government. In reviewing just one week of public meeting agendas, the ACLU of RI discovered numerous violations of the public notice requirement part of the Open Meetings Act (OMA). The reports recommends that the law be strengthened in order to adequately protect the public’s right to know.
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