Journalists are not to be excluded.

There are too many work meetings and too many overall obligations this week. It makes me crazy, and I'm beginning to suspect that I'm overextended. However, with a bit of time to kill, I found this interesting material from the Knight Citizen News Network. In local terms, being a citizen journalist at public meetings would be far easier if consistent access to the Internet was provided. I'd be too busy ... never mind.

The Citizen Journalist's Guide to Open Government

Generally, when meetings are open to the public, the press may not be excluded. The same goes for bloggers and citizen journalists.

The ability to attend public meetings is protected under state and federal open-meeting or “sunshine” laws.