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Supervisors raise concerns about open meeting law enforcement, foresee legal challenge
Summary
Board members questioned aspects of Arizona—s open meeting law enforcement and discussed pursuing legal challenges to what they described as expanded interpretations by enforcement offices.
Cochise County supervisors spent part of the work session discussing the county—s experience with Arizona—s open meeting law and whether some enforcement practices or interpretive expansions of the law should be challenged.
Chairman Frank Antonori and other members criticized portions of the statute and its enforcement as potentially overbroad. Antonori highlighted a provision that allows the attorney general or a county attorney to bring suit to require…
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