It's unclear on what legal basis a task force created in August to consider changing "problematic" names on the Western Kentucky University's campus has ignored open meetings requirements to date, conducting six meetings behind closed doors & failing to record meeting minutes.

But once again, the issue of the public agency status of a "board, commission, committee, subcommittee, ad hoc committee, advisory committee, council, or agency . . . established, created, and controlled by a 'public agency'" is spotlighted.

https://forwardky.com/impeachment-committee-meetings-must-be-fully-tran…

https://forwardky.com/state-board-of-elections-ignores-open-government-…

https://www.facebook.com/419650175248377/posts/606171979929528/?d=n (Kentucky Board of Education Commissioner Search Firm Screening Committee)

https://www.facebook.com/419650175248377/posts/453519261861468/?d=n (University of Kentucky Healthcare Compensation Planning Committee)

https://www.facebook.com/419650175248377/posts/730813314132060/?d=n (Pulaski Fiscal Court Budget Committee)

The Bowling Green Daily News does not indicate how the WKU task force was formed, or who appointed its members, to confirm the task force's status under the open meetings law.

But the newspaper admirably describes the issues pertaining to nonpublic meetings of a (presumptively) public agency.

Leaving aside the necessity of notice to the public of its meetings, and admission of the public to those meetings, there is no exception to the open meetings law that would permit the task force's closed discussion of "changing problematic names" on the WKU campus.

And, again, the University's failure to even consider the open meetings implications of public agency discussion of public business is deeply troubling—even if the agency is acting in a purely advisory role and has no authority to take action.