Sentences with phrase «of open meeting laws»

The precise language of open meeting laws, and the recourse prescribed if they are violated, is going to vary from one state to another, and we can't give you 50 answers.

Here's the link to section 104 of the Open Meetings Law — titled «Public Notice» https://www.dos.state.ny.us/coog/openmeetlaw.html.

He said Santino «meets with all of the members of the town board from time to time within the confines of the open meetings law.»

The bills include A. 5873 / S.4284, which will ensure that public meetings are held in facilities that are able to accommodate members of the public; A. 10093 / S.3195, which will require State and local governments to establish rules to accommodate photographs, audio or video recording of open meetings; and A. 10196 / S.7054, which will add to the remedies a court can impose when it finds a violation of the Open Meetings Law.

The signed bills include a package of Open Meetings Law reforms that were passed in the State Legislature during this year's Sunshine Week.

«Obviously we disagree with the court's interpretation of the Open Meetings Law, it's an ongoing litigation, we expect it will go through the appellate process.

The lawsuit alleges that's a violation of the open meetings law, which requires 24 hours» notice except in emergencies.

«She found that it was a willful violation of the open meetings law.»

However, last November, Empire State Development, the state agency that is currently managing SUNY Poly's economic development projects, did announce that Fuller Road Management and its sister entity, Fort Schuyler Management Corp., would follow «key provisions» of the Open Meetings Law and «conform» to the requirement of the Freedom of Information Law in an attempt to be more transparent.

If a quorum of city council members comment on a Facebook post, is it a violation of the open meetings law?

Not exact matches

One of them would require the Harness Racing Commission to hold open meetings on the granting of licenses; another would make it illegal for public officials or political party officials to hold financial interests in tracks; and the most severe of all would repeal the law which legalized pari - mutuel betting at harness tracks.

According to Devine's civil suit, park district officials routinely violated laws that normally govern and shape public bodies, ranging from the open meeting acts to provisions of the election code.

The casinos allowed under state law, all north of New York City, have struggled to meet revenue projections since opening.

A bill that would expand the Freedom of Information Law and the Open Meetings Law to government - affiliated non-profit organizations has cleared a committee hurdle on Tuesday.

«It behooves them to meet at some point in public to kind of outline how they intend to proceed, (and) what parts of their deliberations they feel would not be subject to the open meetings law and need to be conducted confidentially, and to start off on a good public footing,» she said.

The law that created JCOPE exempts it from the state's open meetings and Freedom of Information laws, so there is no way the public can discern how often this scuttling of investigations occurs.

The lawyer challenging the wording of a constitutional amendment to authorize casinos says the Board of Elections may have violated the open meetings law in approving it.

All meetings of the Commission shall be subject to the open meetings law.

Nevergold underwent lengthy cross-examination on executive sessions, the Opening Meetings law and the timeline of filing the petition against Paladino.

BY MARIA MIRAKAJ BROWNSELL At the last Clarkstown Town Board Meeting in February, Tom Nimick of New City spoke his three minutes asking questions about the town's compliance with the Open Meetings Law.

ALBANY, NY (04/14/2010)(readMedia)-- Governor David A. Paterson today signed 10 bills into law, including three that will reform and strengthen Open Meetings Law, and one that will require the State to make information available to families about the flu and the importance of vaccinations against flaw, including three that will reform and strengthen Open Meetings Law, and one that will require the State to make information available to families about the flu and the importance of vaccinations against fLaw, and one that will require the State to make information available to families about the flu and the importance of vaccinations against flu.

The legislation would make the Authority subject to open public record laws of both states, require that its meetings be open to the public, establish audit and finance committees within the body, and mandate an annual report by an independent auditor that gets sent to the governor, state comptroller and each state's Legislature.

The piece of the NYFCF lawsuit that was allowed to move forward alleges the Open Meetings Law was violated in the days leading up to the same - sex marriage vote, with deliberations and lobbying — including by the governor hismelf — taking place largely in secret.

Back in 1985, the NY Post's Fred Dicker requested access to the Assembly Democrats» daily private confab, and lawmakers responded by rewriting the Open Meetings Law to provide explicit, blanket authority for legislators to conference outside the public eye «to discuss anything including a matter of public business, notwithstanding the member of staff or guests.»

* Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Senate lawmakers and other elected officials met privately and behind closed doors to discuss the issue in violation of the state Opening Meetings Law.

Sen. Brad Hoylman has asked the state Committee on Open Government whether a Senate rule banning the use of cell phones to take pictures violates the state's open meetings Open Government whether a Senate rule banning the use of cell phones to take pictures violates the state's open meetings open meetings law.

Sen. Brad Hoylman of Manhattan has asked the state Committee on Open Government for a formal opinion on the Senate's adoption this week of chamber rules that bar the use of cellphones as recording devices — a prohibition that Hoylman strongly suspects is a violation of state Open Meetings Law.

Freeman said that under Section 1 - 10, Subdivision 28 of the state election law, the «meeting should have been open to the public.»

This involves funneling hundreds of millions of state dollars through non-profit development corporations controlled by Kaloyeros that have maintained they are private entities, exempt from transparency measures such as the FOI and Open Meetings laws.

Good - government groups have been calling for the Legislature to pass laws bringing more transparency to FSMC and FRMC, which are not subject to open meetings law, freedom of information law or pre-auditing by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

In the suit, they argue that the bill was only able to pass because state officials violated Open Meeting Laws, the senate suspended rules to prevent people from speaking, lobbyists and public advocates were denied access to the Senate chamber, and the Governor unjustifiably issued a message of necessity on the bill.

Late Friday afternoon, members of Buffalo's Board of Education responded to accusations from Buffalo developer Carl Paladino asserting the board violated the state's open meetings law by convening in closed - door executive sessions when it chose Dr. Pamela Brown to be the district's new superintendent.

«We don't know who will evaluate the reason,» says Bob Freeman, Executive Director of New York State's Committee on Open Government, which according to its website, advises the public on «Freedom of Information, Open Meetings, and Personal Privacy Protection Laws.»

NYPIRG backs a number of changes, including making the ethics commission subject to Freedom of Information and Open Meeting Laws.

The two development corporations, citing their nonprofit status, contended they were exempt from the state's Open Meetings and Freedom of Information Law.

But that essentially poses a loophole in the state's open government laws, which require that meetings be publicly advertised and offer only a handful of exemptions.

Perhaps the members of the Town Board are wondering about the validity of Town Attorney's views concerning open deliberations as stated in theOpen Meetings Law?

The three - judge appeals court panel said in its order Thursday that the Supreme Court should rule on whether voiding the law is the proper remedy for an open meetings law violation and whether a court has the authority to stop the secretary of state from publishing it.

Republican leadership said Monday it was prepared to insert into the budget measures that would eliminate most collective bargaining rights for public workers unless the High Court ruled on the bill, which had been blocked by circuit court judge Maryann Sumi because of concerns over the state's open meetings law.

The kickoff meeting, which will be open to the media, will take place just two months before the group of mayors and town supervisors is required by state law to present plans for sharing municipal services to save money.

«What's at the heart of this is really the open meetings law,» Vacco said.»

After providing McKenna and this reporter with copies of the relevant section of the state's Open Meetings Law, the board voted unanimously to adjourn to the private setting and then did so.

At Tuesday's County Legislature meeting the floor was opened for public discourse on the special order of the day; a vote on two amendments to the Laws of Rockland County, both of them intended to aid local veterans.

Given the state government's congenital distaste for anything resembling open government, the chances of the states now - hoary 1974 open meetings laws being meaningfully improved this year are slim.

Citizens Union also recommends that JCOPE commissioners make themselves subject to the state's Freedom of Information and Open Meetings Laws, and stop doing most of their business in private executive sessions, which it makes it look like they are hiding something.

At the end of the August meeting, board members voted to go into executive session, «guided by» the state Open Meetings law.

Why, only last week Assembly Speaker - since - January Carl Heastie let it be known than any attempt at expansion of open - meetings laws would not include his house of the legislature.

A constant review of Freedom of Information and Open Meetings laws is important, particularly since those laws were conceived in the 1970s when files were written on paper and kept in metal cabinets.

Many of the governor's most ambitious economic development projects in Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany were administered by two state - affiliated nonprofit development corporations that initially said they were not subject to state open meetings and freedom of information laws.

The second requires economic - development «entities» to obey the Freedom of Information law as well as ethics and open - meetings rules.