Sunshine Act Agency Meetings in Post-September 11 Washington, D.C.

Enhanced pre-meeting security checks and moving the public to separate meeting observation rooms are only two of the alternative procedures Sunshine Act agencies have been considering to handle public observation of agency meetings during periods of elevated security concerns. Other special procedures include:

• Meetings of agency members at “remote locations”
• Vesting all emergency authority in an agency chairperson
• Virtual meetings conducted entirely by telephone and or teleconference

From An Interpretive Guide to the Government in the Sunshine Act, Second Edition

by Richard Berg, Stephen Klitzman and Gary Edles
Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice

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