After lawmakers and public information advocates decried the opacity of Gov. Ned Lamont’s Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group, the governor’s administration pledged to flip the script with its COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group.
But despite the governor’s promise of open meetings, the vaccine advisory group’s transparency took a detour in early December, when the group’s Allocations Subcommittee held a closed-door meeting.
Av Harris, spokesperson for the state Department of Public Health, said that the private nature of the Dec. 2 meeting was “unintentional.”