Right-to-Know: Public Records

Broadcast Date: 
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Duration: 
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Spend an hour with Legal Services Counsel Stephen Buckley and Staff Attorney Margaret Byrnes, who will look at variety of selected issues related to governmental records. To start, learn how to distinguish between non-public records and public records. Then, understand a municipality’s actual legal obligations when responding to a records request. Next, take a closer look at three specific exemptions in RSA 91-A:5: “confidential, commercial, and financial information,” “notes or materials made for personal use,” and “preliminary drafts, notes, and memoranda and other documents not in their final form and not disclosed, circulated, or available to a quorum or a majority of the members of a public body.”  Finally, this webinar will also cover some pointers regarding meeting minutes, particularly focusing on issues related to non-public session minutes. As always, bring your questions! 

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