Online public meeting notices may not be doing what lawmakers originally intended.
The Utah Legislature passed a new law in 2008 that requires all government entities to post all public meeting notices on a state-run Web site. The Utah public meetings Web site, utah.gov/pmn, was designed with public meeting notices in mind.
The Web site, the first of its kind in the nation, may be receiving some praise for being ahead of other states, but some say it is far from perfect.
“Is the public meeting notice system working? I don’t think it is. We have a way to go,” said, Joel Campbell, vice president of the Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Campbell added, “People aren’t getting their meeting agendas when they need to be.”