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61.810 Exceptions to open meetings.

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61.810 Exceptions to open meetings. (1) All meetings of a quorum of the members of any public agency at which any public business is discussed or at which any action is taken by the agency, shall be public <br>meetings, open to the public at all times, except for the following: <br>(a) Deliberations for decisions of the Kentucky Parole Board; <br>(b) Deliberations on the future acquisition or sale of real property by a public agency, but only when publicity would be likely to affect the value of a <br>specific piece of property to be acquired for public use or sold by a public <br>agency; (c) Discussions of proposed or pending litigation against or on behalf of the public agency; (d) Grand and petit jury sessions; <br>(e) Collective bargaining negotiations between public employers and their employees or their representatives; (f) Discussions or hearings which might lead to the appointment, discipline, or dismissal of an individual employee, member, or student without restricting <br>that employee's, member's, or student's right to a public hearing if requested. <br>This exception shall not be interpreted to permit discussion of general <br>personnel matters in secret; (g) Discussions between a public agency and a representative of a business entity and discussions concerning a specific proposal, if open discussions would <br>jeopardize the siting, retention, expansion, or upgrading of the business; (h) State and local cabinet meetings and executive cabinet meetings; <br>(i) Committees of the General Assembly other than standing committees; <br>(j) Deliberations of judicial or quasi-judicial bodies regarding individual adjudications or appointments, at which neither the person involved, his <br>representatives, nor any other individual not a member of the agency's <br>governing body or staff is present, but not including any meetings of planning <br>commissions, zoning commissions, or boards of adjustment; (k) Meetings which federal or state law specifically require to be conducted in privacy; (l) Meetings which the Constitution provides shall be held in secret; and <br>(m) That portion of a meeting devoted to a discussion of a specific public record exempted from disclosure under KRS 61.878(1)(m). However, that portion of <br>any public agency meeting shall not be closed to a member of the Kentucky <br>General Assembly. (2) Any series of less than quorum meetings, where the members attending one (1) or more of the meetings collectively constitute at least a quorum of the members of the <br>public agency and where the meetings are held for the purpose of avoiding the <br>requirements of subsection (1) of this section, shall be subject to the requirements <br>of subsection (1) of this section. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit discussions between individual members where the purpose of the <br>discussions is to educate the members on specific issues. Effective: March 16, 2005 <br>History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 93, sec. 1, effective March 16, 2005. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 162, sec. 3, effective July 14, 1992. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 377, sec. 2. Legislative Research Commission Note (3/16/2005). The Office of the Kentucky Attorney General requested that amendments in 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 93, sec. 1, to the <br>arrangement of the paragraphs of subsection (1) of this section be changed. The <br>change was requested &quot;in the interest of preventing confusion to the public and <br>public agencies&quot; and was made by the Statute Reviser under the authority of KRS <br>7.136.