Thursday 18 September 2014

JoCo, Get Ready For Your Close-Up

Nottingham City Council has just agreed a new policy (pdf) allowing 'citizens' to film and/or record public meetings of the council. This is in response to new government regulations saying that they had to.

Of course, a policy like this would have been much more use years ago when the legal right to film public meetings was unclear but there you go.

Here's one of the first examples of legal filming I could find, taken at the very same meeting the policy was agreed...


PS, not my video, link to original here.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

fylde council public meeting must watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTOL2Uz7Emk