What counts as a meeting

What counts as a meeting

Open meetings laws apply when a quorum of a governing body gathers to discuss business within its jurisdiction. The definition is deliberately broad, because the obvious way to defeat the law is to decide matters somewhere the public is not.

That breadth captures things bodies often assume are exempt: a series of smaller gatherings that together involve a quorum, and in many states a group email or messaging thread in which members deliberate. The test is generally deliberation toward a decision, not the room it happens in.