NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A panel of experts assembled to offer advice on transparency issues is not subject to the state’s open meetings law. At least that’s the opinion of Ann Butterworth, who heads the Comptroller’s Office of Open Records Counsel.
Butterworth made that finding in an email response to a request for more information about a recent teleconference held by the 14-member Advisory Committee on Open Government.
Activist Ken Jakes wanted to know more about the school board association’s representative urging support of legislation seeking to allow agencies to charge for records searches taking longer than an hour.
Current law allows charges for copies, but not for time spent collecting and redacting documents.
