Board: Univ. Of Md. Regents Violated Open Meetings Act

The University of Maryland Regents violated the state's open meetings act in November when the panel met in secret to discuss a move from the ACC to the Big Ten, a state board has found.

In a Feb. 26 opinion, the Open Meetings Compliance Board said, "we find that the Board (of Regents) violated the Open Meetings Act in multiple respects."

Most significantly, the regents were talking about things that they couldn't legally discuss without allowing the public in: "Even on the basis of the limited information that the Board (of Regents) has provided to us about those meetings, ... some part of the Board's discussion should almost certainly have been conducted in open session."

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