Moving on to our next search, that committee will be subject to the Open Meeting Law, Hugh Daley said. There will be minutes. There will be portions that will have to go into executive session, like when we consider resumes. Preliminary screening committees, like the search committee, are permitted to go into executive session if the chair declares that an open meeting will have a detrimental effect in obtaining qualified applicants, according to the Open Meeting Law. The entire process of the Interim Police Chief Advisory Committee was exempt from the OML because it was serving as an advisory committee to an authority (in this case, the town manager) who could have made the decision at his or her sole discretion.