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City-hosted FOIA and ethics workshop covers open-meetings, records and Public Integrity Commission rules
Summary
The council received a workshop presentation on the Freedom of Information Act, public-records practice and ethics rules from Max Walton of Connolly Gallagher; topics included public-body definitions, executive sessions, public records exemptions, and Public Integrity Commission standards.
At a council workshop, Max Walton, a partner at Connolly Gallagher who chairs the firm’s government-defense practice, presented an extended overview of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), executive-session rules, public-records exemptions and state ethics enforcement via the Public Integrity Commission (PIC). Walton reviewed the FOIA core elements: open meetings and open records, and underscored the broad definition of a “public body,” advising that any recurring committee, working group or panel that makes recommendations should be treated as a public body with…
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