{"id":663,"date":"2015-04-17T18:33:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T22:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/?p=663"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:35:48","slug":"open-meeting-law-training","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/2015\/04\/17\/open-meeting-law-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Meeting Law Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A training on the Open Meeting Law was held on Wednesday, April, 15th at the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Saint Andre, Sudbury&#8217;s Town Counsel, instructed Town Boards and Committees on the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law. The law requires that most meetings of public bodies be held in public, and it establishes rules that public bodies must follow in the creation and maintenance of records relating to those meetings.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/ago\/government-resources\/open-meeting-law\/\">Open Meeting Law<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/ago\/government-resources\/open-meeting-law\/\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">click here<\/span><\/strong><\/a> to go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/ago\/government-resources\/open-meeting-law\/\">Open Meeting Law<\/a> web page on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\">Mass.gov<\/a> website<\/p>\n<p>To view <a title=\"OML Training Power Point\" href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/?attachment_id=699\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Open Meeting Law presentation <\/span><\/span><\/a>slides, <a title=\"OML Training Power Point\" href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/?attachment_id=699\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">click here<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This training session was held to ensure that members of public bodies and citizens understand their rights and responsibilities under the law.<\/p>\n<p>If you were unable to attend the training, you can view the on-demand broadcast of the event through SudburyTV by clicking on the link below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sudburytv.pegcentral.com\/player.php?video=93448587be63b2cabf780ad34daf7a6b\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-665 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/342\/2015\/04\/Open-Meeting-Law-Icon.png\" alt=\"Open Meeting Law Icon\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sudburytv.pegcentral.com\/player.php?video=93448587be63b2cabf780ad34daf7a6b\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Open Meeting Law Training<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a>Open Meeting Law Training with<br \/>\nSudbury Town Counsel, Barbara Saint Andre<br \/>\nTaped April 15, 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A training on the Open Meeting Law was held on Wednesday, April, 15th at the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.   Barbara Saint Andre, Sudbury&#8217;s Town Counsel, instructed Town Boards and Committees on the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law. <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/2015\/04\/17\/open-meeting-law-training\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about Open Meeting Law Training\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/selectboardsoffice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}