Learning about open records, meetings
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho — It was a rainy spring evening in Mountain Home, but that didn’t stop a near-capacity crowd of about 50 from filling the Mountain Home Senior Center for a seminar on Idaho’s open meetings and public records laws, complete with Attorney General Lawrence Wasden himself, interactive skits involving lots of audience members, and refreshments afterward.
Elmore County Commissioner Connie Cruser welcomed the crowd, and Wasden, Deputy Attorney General Brian Kane and IDOG President Betsy Russell led the presentation, with plenty of help from audience members who got a chance to portray snoopy reporters, recalcitrant public officials, and others doing things the right way – and the wrong way – under the state’s key openness in government laws.