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Journalists trying to tighten
rules of Open Meetings Act
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Texas has had an
Open Meetings Act since 1967, but a
city planning commission still can
shut its doors and meet in private if
it so desires.
Recent rulings by state judges and
the state attorney general’s office
have held that committees and com
missions below the governing body
of a city, county or scnool district are
not required to hold open, public
meetings.
“When you find public officials
finding loopholes (in the Open
Meetings Act) and using them, then
you have to close the loopholes so
they can’t abuse the public right,”
said John C. Henry, an Austin news
paper editor and spokesman for the
Society of Professional Journalists-
Sigma Delta Chi.
These “loopholes” in the public’s
right to know what their public offi
cials are doing have become of
prime interest to print and broadcast
news media in Texas.
The Open Meeting Act basically
requires public, policy-making bod
ies to do business in public, to post
notice of the meetings and to admit
the public to dicussions.
Efforts to close the loopholes
failed in the 1985 Legislature.
Representatives of SDX, the
Texas Daily Newspaper_Association,
“To close a meeting just
because the members of
the body do not want to be
hassled. .. is ludicrous. ”
—John C. Henry, spokes
man for the Society of
ProfessionalJ o urnalists.
Texas Press Association, Texas As
sociation of Broadcasters, Texas As
sociated Press Managing Editors As
sociation, Texas Press Women and
the Ereedom of Information Foun
dation will meet in Austin Nov. 19.
Ben Hansen, Beaumont Enter
prise editor and chairman of the
Texas APME Freedom of Informa
tion Committee, said, “ This will be
an exploratory meeting to see if all
these various media groups can
work together effectively and suffi
ciently relate our efforts.
If the meeting is successful, Han
sen says they will look at possible ef
forts to strengthen the freedom of
information laws when the Legis
lature convenes in 1987.
“We are going to look toward
drafting a proposal to extend the
open meetings law to cover commit
tees and commissions of local gov-
cov-
s
Television cameras are not _
ered by the present Open Meeting
Act and can be tossed out of pubhi
meetings, Attorney General Jim
Mattox said in a September ruling.
He said audio tape recording, but
not videotapes, was authorized by
the law.
Many editors and reporters also
are disturbed by a ruling of a San
Angelo judge and the attorney gen
eral that commissions and commit
tees of local government are not the
“governing body” and therefore not
subject to die Open Meetings Act.
When the San Angelo City Plan
ning Commission began drafting a
controversial sign ordinance in Au
gust, it closed its meetings to the
public and press.
The San Angelo Standard-Times
filed suit, seeking to open the meet
ings and arguing that closure vio
lated the Open Meetings Act.
Prosecutors tij
to link care wi
cause ofdea
eminent,” Henry said. “To close a
meeting just because the members of
the body do not want to be hassled
by the public is ludicrous.”
Other elements of freedom to re
port the occurrences at the meetings
of public officials also will be dis
cussed.
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — Preset®
have spent the past live week
sembling a jigsaw puzzle of evidj
they believ e will prove the carem
patients at the Autumn Hills nuts
home in Texas City wasgrosslyi
standard. Assistant Attorney (j
eral David Marks said Thursflay,
Marks said the next stepisio
tablish a “causative link !>etween<
care and the death ol ElnoraBn
and 61 other patients.”
The prosecutor made iherem;
Thursclav after a key state win
Bet tv Korndorffer, a formers
nursing home inspector, spenlii
da\ s testifying about condihou
the facility.
The defense passed upanopj
tunity to question KorndorlTo
crops examination.
Judge Don Morgan messed
trial early Thursday.
Defense lawyer Roy Mintons
“We all sat down and went overi
three days of testimony. Wejnst
t ided the very wisest thing to do
to pass.
"Certainly what she (Kortulorli
got inio u us not good,” he said 1
it just would reinforce certainar
of her testimony if we crossed’
On trial for murder are the
tunm Hills Convalescent Center I
and five ol its current and fora
employees.
They are charged with murder
neglect in the Nov. 20. 1978,der
of Elnora Breed.
The woman. 87, died 47 davs
ter she was admitted to the te
Citv nursing home.
The defendants also are chaiys
but not being tried, in the murder
Edna Mae Witt, 78, who died an
facility Oct. 16, 1978.
Also mentioned in the indict
are the deaths of 61 other patie
the nursing home.
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