Technical Bulletins: Public Meeting, Open Record Laws

This Technical Bulletin discusses the Tennessee Public Meeting Law - better known as the Sunshine Law. The law (Tennessee Code Annotated 8-44-101--106) provides that "all meetings of any governing body are declared to be public meetings open to the public at all times, except as provided in the Tennessee Constitution."

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