Council's anonymous vote on white supremacist church may have violated Minnesota's open meeting law

An anonymous City Council vote on allowing a white supremacist church to locate in Murdock, Minn., violated the state's open meeting law.

That's according to several experts and to the language of the law itself, which states that local governments meeting remotely must vote by individual roll call, so that their audience can clearly understand how each member voted.

The Murdock city attorney called the council's action "a matter of interpretation" and said the group had no intention of obscuring its actions. The meeting's minutes, published Thursday, included how each member voted.

https://www.startribune.com/council-s-anonymous-vote-on-white-supremacist-church-may-have-violated-minnesota-s-open-meeting-law/573360161/