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1. A Member on the Executive Board filled a complaint upon a member while this member was running for the Executive Board. The Election Committee met regarding the complaint. The member who filed the complaint is angry because she does not believe her complaint should have gotten out to the person who she filled the complaint on. It was not in executive session so is she correct that they should not have told the person who the complaint was about that there was a complaint filled against her?

2. The union just had a committee meeting. No one called an executive session, or stated that this information is not for everyone else outside the meeting, so technically anything said at this meeting is not to be kept a secret correct?

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1) If the person being complained against isn't a member of the Election Committee then she wouldn't have any right (under RONR) to know what the Committee is doing whether they were in Executive Session or not. However, I suspect that there are some custom rules in place which should cover how complaints are to be handled so the complained against might have had a right to know who the complainant is.

2) If the meeting wasn't in Executive Session there wouldn't be any obligation on the members to keep what was said and done in it quiet.

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The fact that a meeting was not held in executive session doesn't mean that what was discussed should be shared with non-members (of the body that was meeting). An executive session imposes confidentiality. The lack of an executive session doesn't necessarily have the opposite effect.

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