Electronic Participation in Sunshine Meetings

In AGO 2006-20, the Attorney General opined, in response to an inquiry on behalf of the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization, that multiple sunshine agencies could meet together via electronic means. The opinion concludes that while a Joint Citizens Advisory Committee whose members are representatives from several county metropolitan planning organizations may use electronic media technology to link simultaneously held public meetings of citizens advisory committees, the joint electronic meeting would not satisfy the quorum requirements necessary for official action to be taken by the joint committee.