The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday struck down a quorum provision of the Texas Open Meetings Act as “unconstitutionally vague.”
Writing for the majority, Judge Sharon Keller wrote that the statute lacked any specificity. The open records law makes it a crime for government officials to circumvent public access and information about government meetings by knowingly conducting meetings that fail to meet a quorum.
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