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Sunshine Memo 12-12
Board Member's E-mail Correspondence
to Other Members
The Neighborhood Commission Office (NCO) asked whether
the Makakilo/Kapolei/Honokai Hale Neighborhood Board (Board) violated
the Sunshine Law when a Board member sent messages by
e-mail to the other Board members regarding various matters that
were, or anticipated to be, on the Board’s agenda for upcoming
meetings.
OIP found that because the Board member’s e-mail messages
sent to all Board members concerned matters within the Board’s
authority that were anticipated to appear on the Board’s agenda
in the foreseeable future, these e-mail messages improperly constituted
Board discussion of official business in violation of the Sunshine
Law’s open meeting requirement.
OIP recommended that the NCO work with the Board to enforce the
Sunshine Law’s prohibition against Board members’ discussion
of official business outside a meeting, which in this case took
the form of e-mail correspondence from one Board member to the others.
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