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Needham committee weighs executive session for cybersecurity and procurement sensitivities
Summary
Committee members discussed the legal basis and procedures for using executive session to protect cybersecurity information and competitively sensitive procurement details, balancing select board transparency policy with security needs.
Members of the Town of Needham's IT advisory committee spent a portion of their Jan. 8 meeting discussing when to use executive session for cybersecurity and competitively sensitive procurement information and whether recordings should be made public.
Town Clerk Louise Miller advised the group that a committee may enter executive session if it reads the correct legal statement; executive sessions are not recorded and the reasons to go into executive session are limited and must be germane to the committee's authority. Committee members…
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