Boston City Council loses appeals case to Open Meeting Law violation
From Sunshine Review
May 2, 2008
The Boston City Council lost an appeals case fighting against a conviction that they had violated Open Meeting Law on 11 counts. This left total fines to $11,000 for the council.
The lawsuit had alledged that the council had held 10 closed-door meetings from June 3, 2003, to March 24, 2005, to discuss a request by the Boston Redevelopment Authority to renew its urban renewal program and that it held a secret meeting on Jan. 20, 2005, to discuss the exposure of three Boston University lab workers to the bacteria that causes tularemia, an illness caused by exposure to rabbits.[1]
