Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Board Attorney Trains Cromwell Members on FOIA, Executive Sessions and Confidentiality
Summary
Attorney Jessica Ritter led a governance training for Cromwell Board of Education members, emphasizing that board action must be public under Connecticut's open-meetings rules, explaining limits on executive sessions, and warning that written communications and texts about board business are subject to FOIA.
Jessica Ritter, an attorney from the Shipman firm, led a training for the Cromwell Board of Education on members' legal responsibilities, open-meeting rules and confidentiality.
Ritter told members their primary duty is to "look at what is in the best educational interest of our students" and emphasized that board members act as a unified body rather than as individual supervisors. She advised against individual board members contacting or directing district staff about operational matters and said concerns should be routed through the superintendent and the board chair. Ritter described the superintendent (referred to in the transcript as Dr. Macri) as the district's chief…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
