By Alabama Public Radio
Montgomery, AL – Governor Riley will sign Alabama's new open meetings law Tuesday afternoon in a ceremony at the Capitol. The Legislature gave final approval to the law Thursday. It will replace Alabama's 90-year-old open meetings law, which had been criticized for its vagueness. The new law spells out which government meetings should be open to the public and how the public should receive notice of those meetings. Riley did endorse the new open meetings legislation in his State of the State speech in February.