J. Michael Teets, Comm. v. Wendy J. Miller

In the more than forty years since the initial 1975 enactment of the Open Governmental Proceedings Act (the “Act”), we have never exempted .an entire field of government regulation from its purview. No matter how controversial the subject matter or how politically charged the atmosphere surrounding the decision-making process, we have always adhered to the Legislature’s admonition that “[t]he people in delegating authority do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for them to know and what is not good for them to know.” W. Va. Code § Í3-9A-1 (1999). The principle that…