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Q&A: Attorney Heather Elyse Murray on the State's Open Meetings Law and Videoconferencing

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Managing Attorney, Local Journalism Project Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic Heather E. Murray, left with with co-counsel Paula Knudsen Burke of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Clinic alum Connor Flannery, who argued in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Dauphin County in February 2023 in a case seeking access to sealed settlement agreements on behalf of local journalism client The Patriot News/PennLive. Courtesy Heather E. Murray

Managing Attorney, Local Journalism Project Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic Heather E. Murray, left with with co-counsel Paula Knudsen Burke of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Clinic alum Connor Flannery, who argued in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Dauphin County in February 2023 in a case seeking access to sealed settlement agreements on behalf of local journalism client The Patriot News/PennLive. Courtesy Heather E. Murray

Joseph P. Shaw on May 21, 2024
Municipalities throughout New York State are still grappling with the use of videoconferencing for public meetings, both by voting members of boards and by the public attending those meetings. The... more

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