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LSU New Orleans Transition Committee told 11 subcommittees to meet privately.

Legal experts say the move violates Louisiana’s Open Meetings Law .

Committee will guide UNO’s return to the LSU System by 2026.

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The chairman of a committee tasked with guiding the University of New Orleans ‘ transition back to the LSU System has directed 11 subcommittees to meet privately, in what a First Amendment expert says is a violation of Louisiana’s Open Meetings Law.

The LSU New Orleans Transition Committee will advise the LSU Board of Supervisors on UNO’s move back into its system. The school, which will be renamed LSU New Orleans, was part of the LSU System from its founding in 1958 until 2011, when i

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