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All meetings, records, votes, and actions of governmental bodies shall be made openly available to the public unless there is specific law otherwise. When any governmental body votes the votes must be recorded, and where possible with attribution to which officials voted which way. All votes must be cast through physical presence of the official voting or by live call in (via voice or electronic means). Any change to the voting procedures of a body shall be noted in publicly available minutes. •
Public meetings must be announced at least one work day before they are to happen, a notice must include time of meeting, date of meeting, place of meeting, the agenda the meeting (if it is open, and if the meeting is open or closed to the public. Organizers of the meeting must provide legal ways for members of the public to record the meeting. Records must be kept of the happenings of each meeting. •
Closed meetings may be held in certain circumstances, such as meetings concerned about government purchases, the state militia, security software, one's Individually identifiable personal records especially if they are a minor. The state shall never reveal any person's
Social Security number. If it may reasonably endanger a person or hinder an investigation, personal criminal and law enforcement records should be made open. •
No meeting may be closed without an affirmative public vote of the majority of a quorum of the public governmental body. •
Each governmental body must keep its records under the handling of a custodian. Copies of records may be made but records should never be removed or destroyed. •
Any emails regarding public business sent by a member of a public governmental body must also be sent to the custodian of records to be kept. •
Public governmental bodies must provide copies of public records to anyone who asks, no reason for accessing needs to be provided. •
Government bodies that choose not to comply can be brought to court. An individual who purposefully violates the law may receive a fine of up to $5,000. No employee of any governmental body may be fired for reporting what is believed to be a violation of the statute if they did so in good faith. ==Criticisms==