Deriso v. Cooper

Jordan,- Presiding Justice,

dissenting.

The attempted rationalization in the majority opinion between the Constitution and the statutes is appalling.

The Constitution clearly mandates that all official *790meetings of a county school board shall be open to the public (Art. VIII, Sec. V, Par. III. (Code § 2-5303)). The constitutional authority is the supreme law of Georgia and cannot be abrogated or mutilated by any statutory enactment. Any attempt by the Legislature to carve out exceptions to this constitutional mandate relating to school board meetings is void and irrelevant. As was so aptly stated…