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The Open Meetings Act, which replaced the previous Sunshine Act, was signed into law in January 2011 and has yet to be the subject of any reported cases. The Act provides that "[a]ll meetings (including hearings) of any department, agency, board or commission of the District government, including meetings of the Council of the District of Columbia, at which official action of any kind is taken shall be open to the public." D.C. Code Ann. § 1-207.42(a). 

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All governing bodies — state, county, and local — are required to hold open meetings. See T.C.A. § 8-44-102(a); City of Hendersonville v. City of Goodlettsville, 19 TAM 32-5 (Tenn. Ct. App. July 13, 1994) (City violated Act by not conducting public meeting, but the purpose of the Act was served when the decision to purchase property was ratified at a public meeting).

The Government in the Sunshine Act subjects “[a]ll meetings of any board or commission of any state agency or authority or of any agency or authority of any county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision . . .” to its requirements. Fla. Stat. § 286.011(1) (1995). See City of Miami Beach v. Berns, 245 So. 2d 38 (Fla. 1971) (open meeting concept is applicable so as to bind every “board or commission” of the state, or of any county or political subdivision over which it has dominion or control); Times Publ’g Co. v. Williams, 245 So. 2d 470, 473 (Fla. 2d DCA 1971)(same).

Any public governmental body as defined in Mo.Rev.Stat. §  610.010(4) is subject to the Sunshine Law, including state, county, local, or municipal governmental entities.

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The Act applies to all state and local "agencies," which is defined to include (a) every state department, agency, board, bureau, commission, public corporation, and authority; (b) every county, municipal corporation, school district, or other political subdivision of the state; (c) every department, agency, board, bureau, commission, authority, or similar body of each such county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of the state; (d) every city, county, regional or other authority established pursuant to law; and (e), with certain exceptions specified in the Act

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