Reader says it would only take one well-conceived lawsuit brought under the Sunshine Law to effectively neutralize the “normative” power of their innocuous-sounding series of roundtable discussions

Reader says it would only take one well-conceived lawsuit brought under the Sunshine Law to effectively neutralize the “normative” power of their innocuous-sounding series of roundtable discussions

The Sunshine Law was put in place for the benefit of the public to foster transparency and thereby stem corruption (sunshine being the ‘best disinfectant’). In accordance with that important purpose, the Sunshine Law is interpreted liberally (i.e., broadly) to effectively foil the plans of politically-aligned colleagues who separately populate a common public board or municipal council to influence or, worse yet, pre-determine the course of public business outside regular, well-publicized and predictable channels.

One well-conceived lawsuit brought under the Sunshine Law would be all it would take to put the fear of G*d into these shysters and effectively neutralize the “normative” power of their innocuous-sounding series of roundtable discussions.