Earlier this month, SaportaReport covered the murky legal question of exactly how public and open the meetings of Atlanta’s Neighborhood Planning Units (NPUs) must be. Now the Georgia Attorney General’s office has confirmed it’s still murky and essentially would require a lawsuit to clarify.
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NPU system’s open-meeting issues should get clarity in new reforms
The March 1 meeting of Buckhead’s Neighborhood Planning Unit B board wrapped up with a call for the public to exit so a private executive session could begin. As journalists have done since time immemorial, I piped up to ask the purpose of the private session and how it complied with the Georgia Open Meeting Act (OMA).
