House dilutes Sunshine Law

From the TIMES-TRIBUNE:

Pennsylvania, with its woefully corrupt state Legislature and untold units of local government that also are no strangers to corruption, needs an effective Sunshine Law more so than most other states…

The Sunshine Law requires all public bodies to conduct public meetings and to openly do business, with a few exceptions.

A House-passed amendment to the law would vastly expand the ability of local government officials to retreat behind closed doors. Fittingly, the progress of the amendment illustrates the perverse nature of lawmaking in Pennsylvania…

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