“I laid out three specific occasions where it appears the city has violated the open meetings law and provided documentation to your city attorney to substantiate the accusation,” Howard Owens, publisher of The Batavian.
Executive sessions were the subject, and the city attorney’s position was that he could only answer in one. Owens had raised the three occasions at a council meeting two weeks earlier.
Read the full story: City Council and attorney mum about executive sessions, requires executive session — The Batavian, June 2026.
Earlier: a publisher spends his three minutes on the Open Meetings Law.
