governing bodies, aka public agencies; executive and legislative, not judicial; state government; local governments including municipal, county, district, political subdivisions; and/or any department, agency, board, bureau, office, commission, committee, workshop of the aforementioned. It’s clear that public bodies are subject to open meetings law. Private bodies get a bit trickier than what one might suspect. There are many common factors that a state’s court may consider, including what the formal legal nature of the entity is, whether a governmental function is at issue, and the composition of the entity’s board.
In this 11-minute video our speaker, Maryam Judar, reviews open meetings laws case examples. She discusses the four-factor test of whether the entity performs a governmental function; what is the level of governmental funding; what is the extent of governmental involvement or regulation; and whether the entity was created by the government.
Maryam Judar is the executive director and a community lawyer at the Citizen Advocacy Center in Elmhurst, Illinois. She practices in the arenas of sunshine laws and laws supporting public participation including the First Amendment, ballot access, campaign finance, redistricting, and civic education. Ms. Judar was nominated to the state legislative Task Force on Civic Education in 2013, which resulted in the passage of legislation bringing civic education back to Illinois high schools as a graduation requirement.
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Maryam Judar
Citizen Advocacy Center
- Executive director and a community lawyer at the Citizen Advocacy Center in Elmhurst, Illinois
- Practices in the arenas of sunshine laws and laws supporting public participation including the first amendment, ballot access, campaign finance, redistricting, and civic education
- Publications include: 2010 Illinois Civic Health Index, National Conference on Citizenship; The Challenges to Ballot Access and the Challenges Therein, published in the DePaul Journal for Social Justice (2013); and The Goals of Democracy and Those of Economic Development: Bridging the Two While Valuing Public Participation, published in the Journal of the DuPage County Bar Association (2011)
- Nominated to the state legislative task force on civic education in 2013, which resulted in the passage of legislation bringing civic education back to Illinois high schools as a graduation requirement
- Graduated with certificates in public interest law and policy and critical race studies from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
- Can be contacted at 630-833-4080 or [email protected]
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