Robert Freeman, director of the state's Committee on Open Government, said a public body isn't required to allow the public to speak at meetings.
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to speak to the American Public Transportation Association on Monday.
In my experience, members of the public are thrilled to be able to speak to the innovator, or author, himself.
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Banks, retailers and the police are keen not to quarrel in public, so they tend to speak from the same script.
And our position has been and continues to be that we need to balance First Amendment concerns of the right to demonstrate, the right to speak freely, with public safety concerns and public health concerns.
The top tier of public intellectuals has come to speak mainly through upmarket news media such as the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, the New York Review of Books and the BBC.
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At Hotel Julien, the public rooms had no views to speak of, but sitting in them was a pleasure thanks to walls of gridded glass opening onto small courtyards.
Mr Dilnot said the current rules were "unsatisfactory" as they put those entitled to see the information in advance in a "difficult position" if they then had to speak in public and urged a review of the procedures.
The former auditor general is also speaking on behalf of the public service leaders - the non-politician ones, that is - who are not allowed to speak out in public.
Mr. Barresi also said he was disappointed that no teachers or union staff came to speak at the public meeting.
All too often leadership is seen as the ability to speak well in public, to be persuasive, to be loud.
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When I was invited I had already committed to speak at the public library in the small town where I live.
"He is one of the few Japanese leaders who can speak his mind clearly and openly to the public and take swift action on what he believes in, " says Matsui Kiyondo, editor-in-chief of the influential monthly magazine Bungei Shunju.
"The fact is that the Open Meetings Law gives the public the right to be there, but says nothing about the right to speak, " Freeman said.
And so there's hope among conservatives and among Republicans that they'll be able to find a new standard bearer who'd be able to speak not only to conservative voters but also to the public at large.
She had not been motivated by wanting to speak out in the public interest, he said.
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He made a conscious decision to speak and mislead the public on Tuesday.
With the public increasingly demanding accountability from the private sector, every employee needs to know how to speak for the company when necessary.
Backed by a series of talented reporters and producers over the years, he was the front man -- the "closer" so to speak -- for teams of investigative journalists and for the public.
But perhaps only Dr Mahathir has the absolute confidence to speak of it in public, even if he is denouncing it: that, after all, confirms its existence.
No fewer than six ministries are involved in different ways in public security, not to speak of the state governors and mayors.
As she is still a minor under Swazi law, her mother, a public-relations manager at the post office, can claim to speak for her.
By agreeing to speak at the forum he was appearing not just in public, but before a potentially hostile crowd, since his hedge fund, based in London, has a history with financial exchanges.
Obama arrives in Rio on Saturday and will speak in a closed theater, no longer open to the public.
It seems that nearly every company I speak to in China lately plans to go public in the next year or so.
Yet groups claiming to speak on behalf of public health are up in arms about the ad.
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"The US Court of Appeals states that the research is legal, and that the fleet has a right to be there, " says Glenn Inwood, who runs a New Zealand public relations company, Omeka Communications, employed to speak on behalf of the Japanese.
As far as we know, God does not speak to public officials and tell them what would be best for the people.
Around the country, communities are coming together this month to hold vigils, public awareness programs, survivor speak outs and town hall meetings.
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