Iowa View: Private, public matters not easy to separate

Opinion from The Des Moines Register:

I was at a dinner party not long after the scandal erupted over former Des Moines schools Superintendent Nancy Sebring’s emails. At one point, the hostess turned to me and asked, “So, why should government emails be public?”

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Email exchange between school board members not a public meeting, Va. high court rules

From Student Press Law Center

VIRGINIA — The exchange of emails by members of the Fairfax County School Board did not constitute a public meeting under Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act, the state Supreme Court ruled June 7.

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