{"id":9540,"date":"2014-06-27T11:15:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=9540"},"modified":"2014-06-27T11:17:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T15:17:40","slug":"open-meetings-needed-for-county-attorney-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/open-meetings-needed-for-county-attorney-selection.html","title":{"rendered":"Open meetings needed for county attorney selection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyiowegian.com\/local\/x2117436169\/Daniels-new-county-attorney\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/d6673sr63mbv7.cloudfront.net\/archive\/x2117436165\/g0a00000000000000002886ff612ae1d1a16272a3307b528f07d6200490.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nCould there be any problem with selecting a county attorney without\r\nany open process?\r\n<p>\r\nCNHI in VDT today,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostadailytimes.com\/local\/x1669982041\/Officials-violate-Iowa-s-open-meeting-law\">\r\nOfficials violate Iowa\u2019s open meeting law<\/a>,\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p>\r\n\r\nCENTERVILLE, Iowa. &mdash; The Appanoose County Board of Supervisors\r\nand County Auditor Linda Demry violated the state open meeting law\r\nthree times in less than three weeks recently when they interviewed\r\ncandidates for the vacant county attorney&#8217;s position, a state agency\r\nhas determined.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/no-contract-and-no-bids-for-county-attorney-yet-20-raise-to-300000.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:160px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ebbglaw.com\/fullpanel\/uploads\/files\/welliot.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nWell, apparently we don&#8217;t have that problem here<!--more--> because\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/no-contract-and-no-bids-for-county-attorney-yet-20-raise-to-300000.html\">\r\nthere&#8217;s no contract for the Lowndes County Attorney and there were no bids\r\nwhen the current one was selected<\/a>.\r\nYet the county budgets hundreds of thousands of dollars a year\r\nfor that attorney, and spends even more unallocated for things like\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/unnecessary-lawsuit-against-local-business-in-ga-supreme-court-today.html\">\r\nsuing a local business all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court<\/a>.\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Could there be any problem with selecting a county attorney without any open process? 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