Open Meeting Law

  • Sixteen Letters, No Fall Town Meeting; Select Board Update: July 14, 2026

    The Sudbury Select Board held its required hearing and voted 5-0 not to call a fall Town Meeting, disclosed a new Open Meeting Law complaint against the board, and reopened a June 30 civility dispute over a Housing Authority seat.


  • One Complaint Closed. Four Still Pending.

    The Attorney General’s office has closed one of Nicole Burnard’s Open Meeting Law complaints against the Sudbury School Committee. It did not find that the Committee acted properly. It concluded that Burnard’s central allegations, that the school administration did not give the Committee the information it needed and the Chair kept important subjects off the…


  • Analysis: No Vote, No Answer

    The School Committee removed a well-reviewed superintendent without a public vote. A member’s Open Meeting Law complaint asked how. The committee’s response to that question, more than the removal itself, is what the record shows.