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Local Government New Zealand maintains there are still council meetings that need a degree of privacy.\\xa0
\\nA Chief Ombudsman investigation into eight councils has found some have been effectively closing workshops to the public for invalid reasons.\\xa0
\\nIt followed complaints they were undermining local democracy. \\xa0
\\nLocal Government President Sam Broughton told Mike Hosking that the legislation still allows for publicly excluded meetings.\\xa0
\\nHe said that these might be used\\xa0for\\xa0things that are commercially sensitive.\\xa0
\\nLISTEN ABOVE\\xa0
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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