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City attorney briefs board on Texas Open Meetings Act and city-code limits on abstentions
Summary
Assistant City Attorney Daniel Moore reviewed TOMA requirements for notice, walking quorums, hybrid meetings and closed sessions and explained that Dallas city code (chapter 8) constrains board members to follow the city attorney’s advice unless overturned by a court.
Assistant City Attorney Daniel Moore presented a step-by-step briefing on the Texas Open Meetings Act to the Community Police Oversight Board on Nov. 10, explaining when a gathering becomes a ‘meeting,’ how notice requirements work, and what limits apply to board interaction with the public during open-microphone comment.
Moore told the board notice must now be posted three business days before a meeting and reminded members that deliberation by a quorum (including written communications that amount to deliberation) constitutes a meeting under TOMA. He described walking…
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