Did the Duval County School Board break the law?

It started with a firing and now it has turned into a cover up. A week ago Monday the school board decided to fire the superintendent and all the flowery language in the word cannot hide that. They did so at a board meeting that they failed to record either with audio or complete notes.
In a Times Union article about the cover up, Barbara Petersen, president of the Florida First Amendment Foundation, an open government advocacy group, said the board at a minimum ran afoul of the spirit of the law and possibly violated it.

“If they are saying that during that meeting we all agreed that we are not going to renew the superintendent’s contract, then there should at least be some mention of that in the minutes,” Petersen said. “It doesn’t have to be a verbatim transcript, it doesn’t have to be an audio recording, but it has to be an accurate reflection of what occurred.”

Since there is no audio recordings, the minutes are the only record of the discussion around the board’s decision. The minutes for the Feb. 24 follow-up meeting reference the board’s discussion about Pratt-Dannals on Feb. 20 but are also light on details about the discussion.

This was the biggest (and one of the few good ones) decision the board has made in years. It had to dominate the meeting and to say otherwise flies in the face of logic and they decide not to take notes?

What are they hiding and why?

To read the whole article check here,
http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/479262/topher-sanders/2012-02-29/few-details-meeting-where-duval-school-board-decided