[CGC] QAC Commissioners violate Open Meetings Act

[Administrator]

Angela Price, Editor of the The Kent Island Bay Times, filed an complaint 
with the Open Meetings Compliance Board alleging that the Board of County 
Commissioners of Queen Anne's County violated the Open Meetings Act in 
several respects: (1) that a closed session on September 25, 2007, was 
required by the Act to have been conducted in a public session; (2) that the 
Commissioners failed to properly disclose, within publicly available 
minutes, information about the September 25 closed session as well as for a 
series of closed sessions between May 24 and October 9, 2007; and (3) that 
the Commissioners held an unannounced closed session on or about May 23, 
2007.

The Compliance Board concluded that: (1) The September 25, 2007, session was 
unlawfully closed. (2) The publicly available minutes for a series of 
meetings are legally deficient in that they fail to disclose information 
required by the Act. (3) Adequate advance notice was provided for a closed 
meeting held on May 23, 2007.

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