L. Parole board meetings, or meetings involving parole board decisions.

Meetings of the Alabama Pardon and Parole Board should be open under the Alabama Open Meetings Act. Ala. Code § 36-25A-1 et seq. (Supp. 2005). Nonetheless, the files of state prisoners are closed by statute except for that portion of the file that records a decision affecting a prisoner's liberty, property, or civil rights, Ala. Code § 15-22-36(b) (Supp. 2005); therefore, the Board will likely avoid discussion of those files in open meeting in such a way that the statutory mandate of confidentiality would be breached. Meetings of the Board at which a decision is made affecting a state prisoner's liberty, property, or civil rights are expressly open by statute. Ala. Code § 15-22-23(b) (Supp. 2005).