I guess Louisville really can’t catch a break right now.
A new report says the U of L governing board appears to have violated the law in making calls on Pitino and Jurich.
U of L governing board appears to have violated the law in making phone calls on Pitino & Jurich leave: https://t.co/T4ptuRnkUE #uofl #L1C4 pic.twitter.com/Dg7qxO0Xrm
— Kentucky CIR (@KentuckyCIR) September 27, 2017
Here’s an excerpt from the article:
J. David Grissom, an attorney who leads the governing board, said he knew this because he personally called each of them, individually, as the latest basketball scandal unfolded. If so, one expert on Kentucky’s open meeting laws says, his actions were a clear violation of state law.
The Kentucky Open Meetings Act requires decisions to be made in open meetings after notice has been given to the public. Grissom said he called each member individually to ascertain their support of placing Tom Jurich and Rick Pitino on leave.
That is considered polling, an activity that’s banned by state law if it’s used to circumvent open meetings and privately discuss public business.
“To call them [all the board members] is a really clear violation,” said Amye Bensenhaver, a former assistant attorney general who wrote opinions on open records violations. “He should not have picked up the phone and called each of those people. It’s a ‘series of less than quorum meetings,’ where the members attendance collectively constituted a quorum.”
Because…Louisville.
