Daily Herald reporter flags Open Meetings violation and is told she is out of order
Vanessa Curry, a reporter with The Daily Herald in Columbia, was covering a Maury County Commission meeting last night when the chairman decided the best way to overcome a tied vote on who should be a new Administration Committee chairman was to take a recess and have the commissioners confer among themselves. When he made the suggestion, Curry recognized it as as a violation of the state's Sunshine Law about to happen. Governing bodies are bound by the Tennessee Open Meetings Act to deliberate on public issues in a public meeting with the public present, the only exception being when they are allowed to go into a closed session to [...]