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· 11/4/2004

Harris v. City of Fort Smith

Citations

  • 197 S.W.3d 461
  • 359 Ark. 355

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that one on one meetings, including telephone conversations, between the administrator and city directors to obtain a decision on a property purchase were informal meetings subject to FOIA
  • holding that one on one meetings, including telephone conversations, between the administrator and city directors to obtain a decision on a property purchase were informal meetings subject to FOIA
  • holding that contact of individual Board members by the City Administrator to obtain approval of action to be taken by the Board as a whole constituted an informal Board meeting subject to the FOIA
  • one-on-one discussions between city administrator and board members to approve a proposed real-estate purchase violated the FOIA's open meeting requirements, despite the board's \laudable purpose in acquiring the . . . property by confidential bid.\

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Judges: Jim Hannah

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