CONWAY — Carroll County commissioners violated the state right-to-know law on numerous occasions with regard to their meeting minutes and their process for going into nonpublic session, a Carroll County Superior Court Judge ruled based on a lawsuit filed by a state representative. Judge David Garfunkel ordered that some minutes be redacted and released, but he stopped short of imposing civil penalties.

In January of last year, then county watchdog Ed Comeau, who was elected as a Republican state representative from Brookfield the previous November, sued the commission as a whole and Commissioners David Babson and David Sorensen individually because he felt they failed to follow the process for going into nonpublic session and didn't seal nonpublic minutes properly. Therefore, he wanted the nonpublic minutes to be released.

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