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	GOP Angered by Closed Senate Session
		Authority to hold secret Senate sessions is provided in Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution, and the Continental Congress met behind closed doors.
		The most recent closed Senate session was in February 1999 to deliberate President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial, according to the Congressional Research Service, and that was done through a bipartisan agreement.
		Reid said he was forced to seek the closed session to spur action on the investigation.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101037.html (1083 words)

	Are Closed Session Meetings Always Necessary? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I have become increasingly sensitive and cautious about what subjects are discussed in closed session and what implication such topics may have relative to the Brown Act, the public right to know, and my responsibility as an elected official.
		And while closed session meetings may be necessary to protect the innocent and other sensitive matters, I have strong reservations and a general aversion to closed session meetings and discussions.
		Anytime a matter or plan is brought for a closed session discussion, elected officials should search their mind and ask whether it is justifiably worthy of secrecy.
	www.sambarpress.com /chuck/closed.htm (551 words)

	Salisbury Post \| LOCAL NEWS \| Commissioners keeping quiet on closed session (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		On Dec. 5, commissioners held a closed session to discuss the Russell investigation and negotiations related to a hangar at the airport.
		The Post requested minutes from that closed session related to the investigation and contended that any further discussions of the investigation, including hiring a firm to do the work, should be done in public session.
		"My opinion, formulated prior to the closed session, remains that closed session to discuss a possible investigation of a former employee and any subsequent internal investigation by the county, including interviews and reports, relating to possible criminal actions of that employee during the term of employment are well within those enumerated exceptions," wrote Dees.
	www.salisburypost.com /area/350625932537001.php (733 words)

	CNN.com - Democrats close Senate to push war probe - Nov 1, 2005
		On a motion made and seconded to close the doors of the Senate, on the discussion of any business which may, in the opinion of a Senator, require secrecy, the Presiding Officer shall direct the galleries to be cleared; and during the discussion of such motion the doors shall remain closed.
		When the Senate meets in closed session, any applicable provisions of rules XXIX and XXXI, including the confidentiality of information shall apply to any information and to the conduct of any debate transacted.
		The closed session was punctuated by acrimonious broadsides in the Capitol hallways.
	www.cnn.com /2005/POLITICS/11/01/senate.iraq/index.html (1089 words)

	Board refuses to meet in closed session over superintendent's job 10/27/04
		TAYLOR — What was expected to be a closed session Monday to discuss the superintendent's performance and contract instead became a meeting with a few tense moments.
		A motion to go into closed session, where the Board of Education was expected to discuss Supt. James Harris' future in the district, failed by a vote of 4 to 3.
		Harris was not to have been included in the closed session, and Thomas said there might have been a legal issue with the meeting, so he did not vote to hold it.
	www.thenewsherald.com /stories/102704/loc_20041027012.shtml (759 words)

	Legal Memoranda: Closed Session Minutes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The newspaper complained that a specific closed session of the board of county commissioners was improperly held and sought access to the minutes of the meeting under the North Carolina Open Meetings Law (G.S. et.
		The communications between the board’s counsel and the board in a closed session held on November 1, 1999 for the stated purpose of "legal matters" were not confidential and therefore not the appropriate subject of a closed session.
		While school boards certainly are free to make and keep verbatim transcriptions of closed sessions meetings, this order does not appear to impose a legal requirement that this be done.
	www.ncsba.org /policy/memo01.htm (371 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Conn. / Lyons defends inquiry committee's closed session (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		House Speaker Moira Lyons responded to media complaints about a closed-door session of the Rowland inquiry committee, saying she believes there are "gray areas" regarding issues that are discussed in public and in private.
		Steven F. Reich, the panel's lawyer who was admitted to the Connecticut bar Friday, said the executive session was legal because of an attorney-client privilege clause in the FOI Act.
		Eric Turner, director of public education at the state FOI Commission, said he is unsure whether the committee could meet in private to talk about the procedures and scope of the probe, as listed on the agenda.
	www.boston.com /news/local/connecticut/articles/2004/02/21/lyons_defends_inquiry_committees_closed_session (720 words)

	NC State Office of the Provost: Closed Session (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The law allows moving into closed session only for any one or more of seven specific permitted reasons.
		Minutes must be kept of closed sessions but they "may be withheld from public inspection so long as public inspection would frustrate the purposes of the closed session."
		Moving into closed session requires that a motion be offered and passed which is worded as follows:
	www.ncsu.edu /provost/governance/openmeet/closepro.htm (290 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Senate plans closed-door intelligence session (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The last time the Senate held a closed session was in February 1999, during President Clinton's impeachment trial.
		Its most recent private session involving national-security matters was in 1997, focused on the chemical-weapons treaty.
		For several weeks Democrats have been pressing for such a session — which would allow discussions of classified material — to debate the administration's use of intelligence as well as the quality of the intelligence itself.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001857954_iraqdig14.html (791 words)

	The WSU Signpost - Senate to meet in historic closed-door session (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Any two senators can force a closed session, and Republican leaders decided to go along despite criticism from some in their ranks that the closed session is an unnecessary political stunt designed to turn up the heat on President Bush.
		Democrats insist the session is a legitimate, even important, way for lawmakers to explore how the intelligence community could have been as mistaken as it apparently was in saying that Iraq was concealing significant stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.
		But the Senate session is likely to add heat to a debate already fueled by the presidential campaign.
	www.wsusignpost.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2004/03/03/40456eafcc908 (591 words)

	Curators schedule personnel issues for closed session
		The closed meeting on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus was announced yesterday.
		State law allows a public governing board to close its meetings for issues that include the "hiring, firing, disciplining or promoting of particular employees." Any vote taken must be disclosed within 72 hours of the meeting.
		But the last-minute session in Columbia shouldn’t be construed as out of the ordinary, said Joe Moore, a spokesman for the four-campus university system.
	www.showmenews.com /2005/Jul/20050716News007.asp (279 words)

	Council urged to open up \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Cynthia Conger held a copy of the state's open-meeting law at yesterday's meeting, during which the City Council was urged to hold fewer closed sessions.
		The state's open-meeting law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, allows closed sessions for personnel matters, labor negotiations and discussions of public security, property negotiations and pending or anticipated lawsuits.
		Among other changes, the proposals would require that agendas for closed sessions be made part of the regular meeting agenda, rather than published separately, and that the public be allowed to comment in advance on every item set for closed session.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040316/news_1m16open.html (496 words)

	FOXNews.com - Senate Dems Force Rare Closed Session - Politics \| Republican Party \| Democratic Party \| Political ...
		Democrats say the demand for a closed session was prompted by "misinformation and disinformation" given by President Bush (search) and his administration prior to entry into the war in Iraq and a failure of Republicans to look into it.
		During a closed session, cameras are not allowed in the chamber, the public is removed and a security sweep is performed.
		Durbin said Democrats chose to force a closed session because of the classified nature of the material to be discussed.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,174187,00.html (2540 words)

	Closed Programs—Session 2
		Archery for 9 to 11 year olds is closed.
		Out of the Woods for 12 to 15 year olds is closed.
		The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
	www.recsports.umn.edu /youth/closed/two.html (181 words)

	USATODAY.com - Democrats force Senate into rare closed session (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		WASHINGTON (AP) — Unable to win their way with votes, outnumbered Democrats used a rarely invoked Senate rule to force a secret session Tuesday, calling attention to assertions that the Bush administration misused intelligence in the run-up to war in Iraq.
		Trent Lott, R-Miss., a former majority leader, said a closed session was appropriate for overarching matters like impeachment and chemical weapons — the two topics that last sent the senators into such sessions.
		But it was the first time in more than two decades the chamber has been forced into a closed session without bipartisian agreement.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-11-01-senate-closed_x.htm (840 words)

	CLOSED SESSION
		A closed session meeting was convened during the December 18, 1995 Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees.
		The closed session meeting convened at approximately 9:15 p.m.
		The approval of the fines, with the exception of the aforementioned fines was discussed at the closed session meeting of the Board of Trustees which was held on September 18, 1995.
	www.southorange.org /minutes/closed/1995-dec-18.htm (715 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Gambling commission narrows closed-session bill
		The commission has argued in recent months that it cannot legally discuss certain matters in either public or closed session.
		At the same time, California's open meetings law forbids discussion of most of that information in closed sessions.
		The amendments restrict the commission to "discussing" in closed session "matters involving trade secrets, nonpublic financial data, confidential or proprietary information and other data and information," the disclosure of which is prohibited by law or a tribal gaming compact.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20050622-1707-cnssecrets.html (529 words)

	News @ Serbian Unity Congress \| Barry Lituchy decides to give public evidence in closed session at ICTY, Andy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Nice objected to the closed session on the grounds that the prosecution could not check the persons on the tape to determine the circumstances those persons were under when they gave the interviews.
		The witness's request for closed session is equally nonsensical.
		Lituchy is closing the barn door five years after the cow escaped.
	news.suc.org /bydate/2005/March_10/27.html (835 words)

	Board Minutes - 10/11/04 - Closed Session
		The St. Charles City-County Library District Board of Trustees met in closed session for the purposes of discussing real estate and the values there of, as permitted under RSMO 610, on Monday, October 11, 2004 at the McEagle Headquarters, 1001 Boardwalk Springs, adjacent to the Library Express at WingHaven in O’Fallon, Missouri.
		Stump asked for a motion to adjourn the closed session and return to the regular agenda in open session.
		Craig moved to adjourn the closed session, and return to the Board of Trustees agenda in open session.
	www.win.org /library/library_office/board_information/minutes/2004/0410-closed.html (1030 words)

	The Raw Story \| Reid takes Senate into closed session over Iraq intelligence
		Closed sessions were also employed in 1997 for the Chemical Weapons Convention, and in 1992 during debate over China's "Most Favored Nation" trade status.
		The Senate can vote to end closed session by a simple majority.
		This past weekend, we witnessed the indictment of the I. Lewis Libby, the Vice President’s Chief of Staff and a senior Advisor to President Bush.
	rawstory.com /news/2005/Reid_takes_Senate_into_closed_session_1101.html (1483 words)

	Closed session on Open Meeting Law scrapped
		Acting City Attorney Deborah Robberson had called for the council to go into executive session Sept. 27 to discuss the law, which requires public bodies to hold most all of their meetings in public.
		In February, several citizens protested after a closed session in which the council appeared to effectively sell the city's Rose Garden to developer Fred Unger.
		The Scottsdale City Council convened in closed session Tuesday to discuss possible changes to the city's sexually-oriented businesses law.
	azcentral.com /community/scottsdale/articles/0914sr-meetings14Z8.html (528 words)

	League of Wisconsin Municipalities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Every public notice of a meeting shall set forth the time, date, place and subject matter of the meeting, including that intended for consideration at any closed session, in such form as is reasonably likely to apprise members of the public and news media thereof.
		Instead, the obligation to provide the "best notice which can be given" requires that the closed session notice be as specific as possible without compromising the interests served by the proposed closed session.
		Thus, the closed session and notice interests, although competing, are furthered to the greatest extent possible.
	www.lwm-info.org /legal/faq/faq125.html (362 words)

	Closed session bill defeated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Members of the hospital’s board of directors were asked to call legislators to voice opposition to the bill at their April 23 meeting, he said.
		Buerkert complained that no one brought out how impractical it would be to release a tape recording of a closed session if four of the five items remained confidential, having to do with patients or attorney-client privilege.
		Starnes, who supported the bill, said opposition to the bill prompted him to question what was going on in closed sessions.
	www.gazettearchives.com /news2001/_disc1/000001de.htm (718 words)

	Senate Democrats Force Closed Session, Igniting Partisan Battle - Los Angeles Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Tensions were heightened after Reid forced the Senate to go into closed session to take up what the Democratic leader complained was the GOP-controlled Senate's failure to complete an investigation into intelligence used by the Bush administration to justify the war in Iraq.
		Under Senate rules, Reid, on his own, could force the Senate into a rare closed session, which requires the sergeant at arms to clear the chamber of visitors.
		Frist called Reid's action an `an affront to me personally" and labeled it a political "stunt." Defending the closed session, Reid's top lieutenant, Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, said, "It is clear now that the American people were not informed properly before the invasion of Iraq.
	www.latimes.com /news/nationworld/nation/la-110105senate_lat,0,2476919.story?coll=la-tot-promo&track=morenews (431 words)

	BDC approves development backed by Ray Lewis in closed session - Baltimore Business Journal: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Baltimore Development Corp. voted behind closed doors Thursday morning in favor of a development team led by the Cormomy Company and linked with Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis to redevelop a group of waterfront properties in the Carroll Camden section of the city.
		The vote appeared to have taken place under the same circumstances as another redevelopment project which was challenged in the courts and ultimately required the city's economic development arm to open its meetings to the public.
		Williams said the second part of the discussion was closed to the public because the board needed to consider the financial stability of the two development teams competing for the project before making its decision.
	baltimore.bizjournals.com /baltimore/stories/2006/12/18/daily31.html (776 words)

	JS Online: State law doesn't restrict remarks on closed sessions
		Jack Chiovatero said he couldn't discuss what happened in a closed session in which another alderman attacked his association with a campaign supporter.
		Public bodies are allowed under state law to go into closed session to contemplate legal issues, the buying and selling of property, and some personnel matters.
		Last week, at a closed session called to discuss the city's plans to buy parkland west of Endicott Park, the city labeled packets given to aldermen with stickers bearing their names, Flaherty said.
	www.jsonline.com /news/wauk/mar05/310571.asp (764 words)

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