Can Elected Officials Talk about What Goes on in Secret Meetings??

In a handout prepared for a November 12, 2012, Township Officials Boot Camp by Keri-Lyn Krafthefer and Tiffany Nelson-Jaworski that question is answered as follows:


My interpretation is that the only thing keeping a board members from disclosing what occurs in a peer pressure.secret meeting (executive session) is peer pressure.


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Can Elected Officials Talk about What Goes on in Secret Meetings?? — 2 Comments

  1. I, likewise, have never been able to find a statutory prohibition against Illinois officials telling the public about closed session discussions.

    Nevertheless, only rarely could I get one to do so and, even then, it was always “off the record”.

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