This year’s overhaul of the state’s open government laws may have an unintended consequenceupending a 19-year precedent requiring Georgia universities to make student disciplinary hearings open to the public.
Lawyers for the University of Georgia and Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens are trying to determine whether the new law allows the school to close student disciplinary hearings from the public, said Nels Peterson, solicitor-general for the Law Department.
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