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BRIEF: New law will let officeholders meet online legallyApr 09, 2009 (The Knoxville News-Sentinel - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- County commissioners, city councilmen and school board members across the state are authorized to hold conferences via computer, so long as the public can read what they say, under legislation that has now cleared both the House and Senate. The bill (HB533) expands statewide a law that now only applies to Knox County, where county commissioners have been able to go to an Internet "chat room" and send messages back and forth to each other without violating the state's Open Meetings Act. Get more details at Tom Humphrey's blog, Humphrey on the Hill. To see more of The Knoxville News-Sentinel or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.knoxnews.com. Copyright (c) 2009, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email [email protected], call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA. |