How open are D.C. government agencies? By and large, they could do better.

Naughty naughty University of Maryland! A state board concluded this week that the university’s Board of Regents violated the state’s open meetings law when it decided to join the Big Ten conference late last year.

Last week’s arrest of two journalists at a public meeting of the D.C. Taxicab Commission highlighted something of a loophole in the District’s new Open Meetings law — it doesn’t say anything about whether the public or the press are allowed to record the proceedings, or when a commission, board or agency can limit or prohibit it. That looks like it’s going to change.