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BZA gets training on Tennessee Open Meetings Act; members warned against serial meetings and undisclosed bias
Summary
Amanda Harrington delivered training on the Tennessee Open Meetings Act (TOMA), highlighting that two or more members deliberating toward a decision can trigger the law, serial communications and staff-mediated messages are risky, and disclosure or recusal may be required to protect due process.
Amanda Harrington provided a training session on the Tennessee Open Meetings Act, emphasizing that under TOMA a meeting can be triggered whenever two or more members of a governing body ‘‘convene to deliberate toward or make a decision on public business,’’ regardless of whether a quorum is present.
"The term convene is often misunderstood because people associate it with physically…
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