Alabama Jettisons Open Meetings Law, Adopts New One
News Media and the Law › Vol. 29 Nbr. 2, April 2005
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With a few strokes of his pen, Republican Gov Bob Riley sealed the repeal of one of the nation's first open meeting laws. The reason for the 90-year-old law was the Southern landowners' alarm at the rising corporate influence in Alabama politics. And as of Oct 1, when the new law officially supplants the old, Alabamians will have the right to record their government's meetings, and courts will wield power to invalidate government actions taken in violation of open meetings requirements.
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Alabama Jettisons Open Meetings Law, Adopts New One
Come Oct. 1, Alabama's 90-year old open meetings law will be no more. With a few strokes of his pen, Republican Gov. Bob Riley in March sealed the repeal of one of the nation's first open meetings laws.
Riley's signature replaced several vague paragraphs written in 1915 with 26 pages of clear standards for open meetings, the culmination of a t...See the full content of this document
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