MUSKEGON — A circuit court judge will privately review closed session minutes to determine whether a $4 million settlement was, in fact, reached Nov. 6 between the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners ...

AUGUSTA COUNTY — The controversial closed session recording of the Augusta County Board of Supervisors “will be ordered” to be provided to those asking for it, wrote Judge Thomas Wilson IV. On Dec. 21 ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The UNC Board of Trustees is accused of “systematically hiding matters of grave public concern,” in a new lawsuit. The lawsuit includes the hiring of football coach Bill Belichick ...

Charlotte interim City Attorney Anthony Fox said Wednesday that state law prohibits elected officials from talking about anything that happens in a closed session and that there are criminal penalties ...

A judge will decide later this month if the Augusta County government will have to hand over the recording of a closed session held by the Board of Supervisors on March 20 to discuss the resignation ...

Augusta County, in a new response to our challenge in Augusta County Circuit Court to the local government’s denial of a Freedom of Information Act request related to a March 20 closed meeting of the ...

CHARLOTTE — Saturday marks three years since Charlotte City Council met in closed session for 3.5 hours to discuss Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers who kettled protesters during ...

PETERSBURG – The closed session that followed Mayor Sam Parham’s angry outburst at last week’s City Council meeting was improperly requested, according to both the Rules of Council and the Virginia ...

When the Montgomery County school board has met privately with its lawyers, the group has justified the closed session in the generic language of state law. The public knows only that the board is ...

HINSDALE, IL – The board for Hinsdale High School District 86 spent nearly 30 percent of its time in closed meetings over the last year. According to a Patch analysis of meeting minutes, 29 percent of ...