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Verona adopts ordinance banning municipal nondisclosure agreements
Summary
The council unanimously adopted ordinance 26-1087 to prohibit the city from executing nondisclosure or confidentiality agreements that would prevent public access to government information, with council and counsel noting rare, narrow exceptions could be revisited later.
The Verona Common Council voted to ban municipal nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements, a move the mayor framed as a protection for open government.
Mayor Mary Diaz told the council such agreements run counter to the public-records principles that guide municipal government. "The idea that the government could sign an…
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