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Council receives annual training on Open Meetings Act and GRAMA; staff warned about social media and records handling
Summary
Legal staff delivered the council’s required annual training, emphasizing that the public’s business must be done openly, that a quorum creates a meeting even informally, that social-media coordination may create an unlawful meeting, and that GRAMA broadly defines records and has undergone a statutory language change earlier this year.
Taylorsville council members received the city’s annual training on the Open and Public Meetings Act and the Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) during the Oct. 15 meeting.
A deputy city attorney summarized two guiding principles: "this is the people's business" and deliberations about public business must be open. He told members that a meeting occurs whenever a quorum (three members for Taylorsville) deliberates and warned that casual, coordinated conversation — including some social-media exchanges — can inadvertently create a meeting that must be publicly…
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