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1978 Arizona Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1978)

handle is hein.sag/sagaz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DEPARTMENT OF LAW OFFICE OF THE BRUCE E. BABBITT STATE CAPITOL ATTCRNEY GENERAL January 9, 1978 The Honorable Robert B. Usdane Arizona State Senator State Capitol, Senate Wing Phoenix, Arizona 85007 Re: 78- 1 (R77-194) Dear Senator Usdane: This is-in-response-to your letter of June 1, 1977 wherein you requested that we review Attorney General Opinion No. 73-9 - (March 28, 1973) in light of several changes in the State's Open Meetings Law since the opinion was originally issued. Att'y Gen'1 Op. No. 73-9 considered certain actions of the Board of Regents under Arizona's Open Meetings Law (A.R.S. S 38-431 et seq.). The actions in question included the following: 1. Failure to release Board agendas to the public prior to the Regents' meetings. 2. Forbidding the public to speak at the meetings without first obtaining the unanimous consent of the Board. 3. Approving several items at one time with little or no discussion, after having private sessions from which the public was excluded. 4. Taking action in public session with little or no discussion, after holding private sessions at which these actions were discussed and-in some cases the Board members had already come to a decision as to how they would vote. With respect to these actions, we found, as reported in Opinion No. 73-9: 1. Nothing in existing law required the Board of Regents to release advance copies of their agendas, and that-the public had no inherent or statutory right to see a copy of the Board's agenda. 2. There were no provisions in the