McKay v. Board of County Commissioners

*491OPINION

By the Court,

Springer, J.:

Nevada’s Open Meeting Law1 requires all meetings of public bodies to be public meetings “except as otherwise specifically provided by statute.” On December 6, 1984, the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners, a public body, conducted a closed meeting with its attorney. Since there is no statute which provides a specific exception permitting public bodies to hold closed meetings simply because their attorneys are present, the meeting was in violation of the open meeting law.

The closed meeting arose out of the following set of circumstances. During the…