Attorney General: ISU meeting not illegal

POCATELLO (AP) - The Idaho Attorney General's office says Idaho State University did not violate the state's open meeting law when a parking advisory board met behind closed doors in May.

Assistant Chief Deputy Brian Kane says in a letter dated Wednesday and obtained by the Idaho State Journal that the advisory board was created internally by the school and not by Idaho statute.

Kane says that means the board is not a public agency under the Idaho Open Meeting Act and for that reason didn't violate the law.

But Kane also writes that the parking advisory board should consider the cleansing effect of holding open meetings.

Idaho State spokesman Mark Levine declined to comment on future meetings.