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AT LAST Thursday’s meeting of the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors, the chairman of what amounts to the highest elected legal body in the jurisdiction announced that he didn’t agree with a law of the state of Virginia, and that he’d get around that law, if he had to, to accomplish something he wanted.
That may sound like a somewhat heavy way of putting it, but that’s what it amounted to when Pete Luke set up an “executive work session” for later this month at which the Supervisors were invited to talk about any and all matters of the public’s business they might care to bring up. That’s right—to talk about the public’s business, in private.
Virginia’s Freedom of Information Law, for all of its relatively mild language, is
specific on the Conditions of closed door meetings. They may only be held for stated, understandable reasons—such as a discussion of “personnel matters” which might prove unduly embarrassing or harmful to an individual; for pending legal matters; for land acquisition, where premature disclosure might cost the public extra money; things of that nature. It does not allow loose, catch-all reasons for meeting behind closed doors, for talking about “the budget, schools, landfills and anything somebody else might think of.” The law was enacted to prevent just this sort of thing.
AS DO Commonwealth’s Attorneys everywhere, when the question is raised, Rappahannock’s was inclined to be easy
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