AUGUSTA (AP) — A hearing on whether the LePage administration violated Maine’s open-meetings law has been canceled because the governor’s office agreed to pay a $500 fine.
The attorney general’s office took the rare step of imposing a fine after the state commission tasked with reforming public education funding held a closed-door meeting.
An assistant attorney general told commission Chairman William Beardsley – who leads the Department of Education – that the meeting was a public proceeding. Commission staff then moved the meeting’s location and called it an informal “reception.”
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