The Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday narrowly agreed with a non-lawyer activist who argued his own case that members of the Atlanta City Council violated the state Open Meetings Act by failing to record the names and votes of members during a retreat in 2010.
The 4-3 high court majority said that a Fulton County trial judge and the Court of Appeals of Georgia were wrong to read the law so strictly that public bodies could hide the names and votes of members simply by calling a non-roll-call vote.
