Walk It Through: The Public Meeting
No sign in sheet, a recording without asking, and removal only for a breach of the peace.
At the door of a township board meeting, a clerk asks everyone to sign in with a name and address.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One township board meeting. The notice rules, the purposes for which a closed session may be held, remote attendance, and the remedies when a decision violates the act are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Breach of the peaceThe one condition on a secured party that takes collateral back without judicial process, such as a car bought on credit. It may do that only if it proceeds without breach of the peace.
- Open meetingA meeting of a public body held in a place available to the general public, which all persons are permitted to attend. All decisions are made, and all deliberations of a quorum take place, at an open meeting, except as the act's closed session sections provide.
- Recording a public meetingThe right to attend a meeting of a public body includes the right to tape record, videotape, broadcast live on radio and telecast live on television the proceedings at a public meeting.