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Assistant city attorney briefs Portsmouth task force on FOIA limits for members
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Assistant City Attorney Burl Stromberg told the Portsmouth Gun Violence Prevention Task Force on the evening it met in City Council chambers that the Freedom of Information Act requires its meetings to be open and most records to be public.
Assistant City Attorney Burl Stromberg told the Portsmouth Gun Violence Prevention Task Force on the evening it met in City Council chambers that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires the task force to hold open meetings and make records available to the public.
Stromberg said he had distributed a two-page summary and walked members through the basics of FOIA: "FOIA stands for the Freedom of Information Act. It's a state law that, we come under and we have to abide," he said. He explained that a meeting is defined as three or more members…
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