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Vermont lawmaker urges adding disorderly-conduct language to protect public meetings
Summary
Representative Jim Harrison, R-Chittenden, asked the House Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee on May 2 to add a sentence to the disorderly-conduct statute so that intentional or reckless behavior that "substantially impairs the effective conduct of a meeting of a public body" could be charged.
Representative Jim Harrison, R-Chittenden, asked the House Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee on May 2 to add a single sentence to the disorderly-conduct statute that would make it a crime when a person’s intentional or reckless behavior “substantially impairs the effective conduct of a meeting of a public body.”
Harrison told the committee he had raised similar language earlier in the session in H.145 and said the added sentence would give municipal volunteers clearer authority to remove disruptive attendees. “Substantially impairs the effective conduct of a meeting public body,” Harrison read from the proposed text.
Tucker Anderson,…
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