{"id":20413,"date":"2020-03-27T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=20413"},"modified":"2020-03-27T16:52:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:52:15","slug":"the-sunshine-act-and-the-coronavirus-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=20413","title":{"rendered":"The Sunshine Act and the Coronavirus (COVID-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OpenRecords-1024x329.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20414\" width=\"511\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OpenRecords-1024x329.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OpenRecords-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OpenRecords-768x247.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OpenRecords-1536x494.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/OpenRecords.jpg 1578w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sunshine Act is clear that public meetings should be held at public buildings with open public participation whenever possible. If an official emergency declaration prevents that from happening, a meeting via teleconference, webinar, or other electronic method that allows for two-way communication is permissible in most circumstances. (Some agencies may be governed by laws which add requirements beyond those included in the Sunshine Act.)<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/openrecordspennsylvania.com\/2020\/03\/11\/the-sunshine-act-and-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> to read more.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunshine Act is clear that public meetings should be held at public buildings with open public participation whenever possible. If an official emergency declaration prevents that from happening, a meeting via teleconference, webinar, or other electronic method that allows for two-way communication is permissible in most circumstances. (Some agencies may be governed by laws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}