GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (via WOOD TV 8) — Weeks and sometimes months before Grand Rapids city commissioners cast public votes on important issues — from roads to panhandling to backyard chickens — they meet secretly to discuss them.
The public is left in the dark.
In fact, members of the public wouldn't be allowed into the meetings even if they knew about them.
A lawyer for the Michigan Press Association said she believes the meetings violate the state's Open Meetings Act. Even Grand Rapids' former city attorney is speaking out against them.
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