Yesterday, while attending the meeting of association of town finance committees at Devens, I sat in on finance committees and social media.
Most of the subject was how one town uses electronic communication to get the word out, with regards to town business. Eventually, the subject of open meeting law and social media came up. I was listening intently; the subject I wanted came up, members of a committee posted and commented on something, eventually, a majority or quorum was involved in comment. Someone filed open meeting law complaint. The results were interesting, the Massachusetts office of open government found basis for the complaint, seems the post and following comment  was not aimed at just members of the committee, rather it was out there for all to see, read and comment on. Pretty much for the whole connected world to see, read and comment on. In the case of Templeton Advisory Committee members, a Templeton selectmen commented on things, more than once. He even went so far as to file a complaint at a selectmen meeting. There were eventually multiple complaints filed, which were answered by the committee. In the end, other than negative newspaper coverage, nothing happened and nothing else resulted. The answer is, as in the example given at yesterday's workshop, was the post and following comments were out for everyone to see, read and comment on. If it had been a group face book post for instance, available to only committee members, it would have been a different story.

Again, past and present members of the Templeton Advisory Committee are vindicated, they did nothing wrong and DID NOT VIOLATE the Open Meeting Law!

As for the committee, five of the seven current members attended the conference, on a Saturday, which began at 8:15 in the morning and ended around 2:30 in the afternoon.