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010. Broadcasting of Meetings

The Board recognizes the usefulness of broadcasting the proceedings of publicly convened Board Regular and Interim meetings and, from time-to time, other public meetings of the Board and its committees.

Therefore, at its sole discretion, the Board may video record all or any portion of its regularly scheduled meetings and specially advertised meetings and broadcast such meetings by tape delay four times each week for a period of time not to exceed two weeks between meetings.

The video recording of any public legislative meeting or other video recorded Board meeting produced by the District is the exclusive property of the District to be used at the Board’s discretion.

The video recording of any public legislative meeting or other video recorded Board meeting produced by the District is not the official record of the meeting and is not a public record available for inspection and copying. The Board-approved written minutes will continue to be the official record of the meeting.

After broadcast, the actual recording containing the video of any public Board meeting produced by the District may be used at the discretion of the Board.

Notification
The published agenda available at the meetings and on the Website will contain a notification that all or a portion of the meeting is being video recorded for the purpose of public broadcast and shall include a notification disclaiming responsibility for statements made by those in attendance at the meeting.

At parental request, a tape will be edited to protect a student's identity.

While it is the Board's intent to broadcast video recorded Board meetings in their entirety, the Board, at its discretion, may:

1. discontinue the video recording of a meeting at any time by majority vote of the quorum in attendance at a particular public meeting if video recording becomes impractical due to equipment malfunction, operator unavailability or if the video recording is creating any impediment to conducting the meeting in an orderly fashion; and
2. edit the video recording of a meeting prior to broadcast in order to avoid possible legal liability to the Board, the District and District employees.

The Board, by majority vote acting upon the advice of the Solicitor, or any other appropriate legal counsel, will determine which portions, if any, of its video recordings of public Board meetings will not be broadcast over television or other media. If a majority vote of the Board cannot reasonably be obtained in a timely manner, the Board President will act in its stead. Examples of the type of statements that would be subject to editing are abusive, obscene and potentially defamatory statements by those in attendance at the meeting.

Any Board Memb11/08/2006 he/she has been defamed at a Board meeting should notify the Board President or Superintendent immediately to provide the Board the opportunity to edit the video recording from that meeting.