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Board counsel reviews Bagley‑Keene rules and warns against serial meetings
Summary
Legal counsel Michael Knoitz briefed the Physical Therapy Board of California on the Bagley‑Keene Open Meetings Act, stressing 10‑day agenda notice, allowed closed‑session topics, serial‑meeting prohibitions and new hybrid/teleconference rules adopted after the pandemic.
Michael Knoitz, the board’s legal counsel, opened the Board’s training by saying the purpose of Bagley‑Keene is “to promote openness or transparency in state decision making, to require a state body to do business in public,” and to provide the public adequate notice and comment opportunities.
Knoitz walked the board through the Act’s central requirements: agendas must be posted at least 10 calendar days before a meeting; substantive items generally cannot be added after that period except for narrowly defined emergency circumstances; and public comment must be allowed before action is taken. He repeated…
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