Michigan Open Meetings Act Archives - Student Press Law Center

NEWS RELEASE: SPLC brief supports opening Michigan Regents meetings

August 31, 2016August 17, 2020 Frank LoMonte

In a brief filed Wednesday, the Student Press Law Center and leading news-media organizations ask the Michigan Supreme Court to take on a case challenging the legality of secret “pre-meeting meetings” where trustees of Michigan universities discuss public business behind closed doors.

Appeal challenges legality of Michigan regents' secretive "pre-meeting meetings"

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May 26, 2016September 5, 2018 Frank LoMonte

Michigan's Supreme Court will be asked to consider whether university regents can lawfully continue excluding the public from "informal meetings" held before each public board meeting, where the bulk of substantive discussion actually takes place.