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13 Mar, 2023

Electronic meetings bill fails in House committee

By |2023-03-17T07:46:05-05:00March 13, 2023|Categories: Legislature, Open Meetings|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Lawmakers killed a bill in a House committee that would have allowed members of county and city legislative bodies to attend meetings by phone or video. The bill was a revival of one that failed in 2021. Lawmakers expressed concerns that members attending a meeting while experiencing a family or medical "emergency" might not be in the mental state to conduct business.

24 Jan, 2023

Bill would allow local governing body members to attend meetings electronically

By |2023-01-24T10:26:35-06:00January 24, 2023|Categories: Legislature, Open Meetings|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Members of county and city legislative bodies in Tennessee would be able to attend meetings electronically, such as by videoconference or phone, when dealing with a family or medical emergency under a bill filed by a pair of lawmakers from Knox County. Sen. Richard Briggs and Rep. Dave Wright sponsored similar legislation in 2021, which failed in a House committee.

7 Apr, 2022

Three bills improving open government laws clear House and Senate

By |2022-04-08T06:05:19-05:00April 7, 2022|Categories: crime records, Legislature, Open Meetings, requests|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Three bills that improve open government have cleared both the House and Senate. One will improve the transparency of public meetings of hundreds of state boards and commissions. Another brings more transparency to deaths that occur in local jails and state prisons. And the third clarifies language in the public records law that sometimes causes confusion over ID requirements and the responsibility of government to search for records.

14 May, 2021

Local government boards resume in-person meetings but they don’t necessarily look like before

By |2021-05-14T17:41:05-05:00May 14, 2021|Categories: Open Meetings|Tags: , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

This month, local governing bodies across the state resumed in-person meetings after 58 weeks under a governor's executive order allowing electronic meetings. The order, which had lifted requirements of state law so that governing bodies could meet electronically due to COVID-19, expired on April 28 without renewal by Gov. Bill Lee. In a spot check of governing bodies, Tennessee Coalition for Open Government found that some resumed physical meetings just as before the pandemic. Others resumed physical meetings but continued citizen-friendly measures that they were not doing before the pandemic — such as livestreaming more meetings and posting the video to YouTube. Some resumed meeting in their regular meeting rooms [...]

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