Wayland School Committee Violated Open Meeting Law: AG

WAYLAND, MA—Wayland's School Committee violated the Open Meeting Law last May when it sent a later that failed to list non-union personnel that would be talked about in an executive session, said Attorney General Maura Healy.

Healey sent a letter to the town on March 27 to inform officials of the ruling that was a response to a complaint initiated by George Harris.

"We agree with the complainant that an executive session topic listed on the Committee's May 8 meeting notice failed to identify certain nonunion personnel who were the subject of this executive session discussion," said the letter from the attorney general's office. "Specifically, unlike all of the other nonunion positions it had listed on its meeting notice, the Committee violated the Open Meeting Law by failing to specify which nonunion positions/individuals employed by the public programs, The Children's Way and BASE were the subject of the discussion."

The attorney general's office also noted that the committee violated the open meeting law previously by failing to provide sufficient details to the public about an executive session, but also added that it was an "oversight, rather than a deliberate attempt to conceal this information from the public."

The office did not find the violation "intentional."

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