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General counsel reviews open meeting law guidance; commission to clarify agenda specificity and communication rules
Summary
The Department of Fish and Game general counsel reviewed Massachusetts open‑meeting requirements for agenda specificity, public-notice timing and prohibitions on serial deliberations; commissioners were advised to include topic-specific agenda items and avoid quorum communications outside public meetings.
Jennifer Sula, general counsel for the Department of Fish and Game, briefed the commission on open meeting law requirements (Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 30A §§ 18–25 and 940 CMR 29), focusing on agenda specificity, 48‑hour notice, and serial communication prohibitions.
Why it matters: Recent guidance from the Attorney General’s office emphasizes that general placeholders (for example, “comments from the chair” or “new business”) do not satisfy the specificity requirement when a topic was reasonably anticipated more than 48 hours…
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