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District attorney briefs board on open meetings, serial communications and executive-session confidentiality
Summary
At a July 31 work session the district attorney reviewed public meetings law, risks of serial communications, how and when executive sessions may be used, and confidentiality obligations for personnel records, attorney-client privileged communications and student records under FERPA.
The Redmond School District's legal counsel gave the board a comprehensive briefing July 31 on public meetings law, serial communications and executive-session confidentiality that the board described as a refresher and a practical guide for everyday governance.
Counsel told trustees that board powers are exercised only collectively in a public meeting and warned about the risk of serial communications where a majority of members discuss district business outside a public meeting. She used the "telephone game" analogy: separate one-to-one or small-group contacts that cumulatively produce majority deliberation violate public meetings laws because they deny the public the opportunity to observe…
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