McNally may disavow Sunshine Law changes
This certainly speaks volumes:
Sen. Randy McNally, chairman of the Legislature's Open Government Study Committee, says he is undecided about whether to sponsor a bill revising the state's Open Meetings Law as recommended by the panel.
Traditionally, chairmen of such study groups often sponsor the resulting legislation, but McNally, R-Oak Ridge, said he has misgivings about some of the proposed changes to the law, also known as the sunshine law.
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McNally said he was concerned about a proposal to allow three or fewer members of a government body to deliberate in private toward a decision on public business. Current law forbids two officials holding such a meeting.
I sincerely hope Senator McNally disavows this abominable proposal. If he does, the bill would almost surely die before ever reaching a full vote in the legislature. That's the fate it deserves.
The citizens of Tennessee are ill-served by any attempt to hide deliberations of the public's business from the people those deliberations affect. This proposed evisceration of the sunshine law should and must be turned away if we are to consider the notion of government accountability anything more than a quaint relic from a naive past.