New law, new lessons for officials in government transparency

Milford Daily News 6/26/11: New law, new lessons for officials in government transparency.  New Open Meeting Law regulations enacted last year were difficult to adjust to at first, say local town and city leaders, but they've since gotten into the swing of things.  July will mark a year since a new set of state regulations went into place that aim at holding municipal boards and committees to a higher level of transparency and transfer enforcement from district attorneys to the state attorney general's office.  Among the new regulations were explicit prohibitions on email deliberations by city or town boards, new standards for posting municipal meetings and ramped up record-keeping requirements.

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