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Open Meetings, Open Records: It’s The Public’s Business

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By Gene Policinski
First Amendment Center vice president/executive director

Twelve county officeholders are out of a job in East Tennessee not because of anything they did, but because of the way they came into their positions — in a secret vote by other county officials. And we should all be glad things turned out that way.

A local trial jury found that a dozen people who were tapped in January to fill vacant offices,…

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