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Austin City Council flaunts Open Meetings, Public Information Acts

The Austin City Council not only for years has been violating the Open Meetings Act through a "walking quorum" - with the Mayor meeting one-on-one or one-on-two before council meetings to deliberate instead of discussing city business publicly - it turns out they've got a secret texting system where they immediately delete conversations in order to intentionally subvert the Public Information Act. And they've used private email accounts for city business on the (flimsy) hope that they wouldn't be subject to public disclosure, as required by law.My old pal Ken Martin at The Austin Bulldog broke the story and has actually filed a lawsuit against the City - bully for him! - to stop what amounts to a conspiracy to violate the Public Information and Open Meetings Acts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 04, 2011 (boomark / email).