Summit Daily: Freedom of information experts who reviewed Summit School District’s Nov. 19 executive session that was accidentally posted online say parts of it fell out of compliance with Colorado Open Meetings law.  

The Summit Daily News provided Colorado Freedom of Information Center Executive Director Jeffrey Roberts and First Amendment and media lawyer Steven Zansberg with the recording and the district’s original claims that the entire discussion was in compliance with the law. 

Executive sessions are a special exemption from Colorado Open Meetings law that allow public-serving bodies like boards of education or town councils to discuss certain matters behind closed doors. They can be used for things like legal advice, or, in the Summit School District Board of Education’s case at its Nov. 19 meeting, personnel matters. 

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