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State’s attorney recommends continuing confidentiality of past executive-session minutes, destroying older audio except for pending litigation
Summary
The committee accepted a recommendation from the state’s attorney’s office, delivered by Ginny Buswell, to continue holding previously held minutes for confidentiality and to destroy executive session audio recordings older than two years except those related to pending litigation; the motion carried unanimously.
Ginny Buswell delivered the state’s attorney’s office recommendation to the Ways and Means Committee that previously held executive-session minutes continue to be held because the need for confidentiality remains, and that executive-session audio recordings more than two years old be destroyed except for recordings that relate to pending litigation.
Buswell stated the recommendation on behalf of the state’s attorney’s office. A motion to accept the recommendation was made by Sharon Williams and seconded by Dan; the committee then voted, and the transcript records the vote as unanimous.
The committee recorded no amendments in the meeting discussion and did not identify specific minutes or audio recordings by date beyond the two-year threshold and the litigation exception. The committee approved the recommendation as presented.
