Secret meetings, July 2, 2009

Tomorrow is a state government holiday, so this week’s edition of the State Register came out today.

And wow! Not one single agency violated the rules that require meeting notices to be published at least five days in advance of the meeting.

A few benefited from the early publication of the Register, though, and would have been in violation otherwise.

As we’ve reminded folks before, the West Virginia Open Governmental Proceedings Act requires agencies to send meeting notices to the Secretary of State in time for notices to appear in the State Register five days prior to a scheduled meeting. Every week, we list the agencies that didn’t comply, thanks to the Secretary of State’s office, which kindly marks those agencies with an asterick in the list of meetings published each Friday in the Register.