Committee questions whether executive-session votes create confidentiality obligations
Members debated whether a vote to go into executive session creates enforceable confidentiality obligations that could carry civil liability; the committee asked the town attorney to return with a legal determination.
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Committee member Jacob Baker summarized research and follow-up with the town attorney on executive-session law and possible obligations arising from a council vote to enter executive session. Baker said the nuance is whether the vote itself creates a mandatory confidentiality relationship that could expose the town to civil damages: “So we could be subject to damages in civil cases that could still be sued.”
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