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Int 0686-2018

Requiring that the meetings of local authorities and entities subject to section 260-a of the state education law within the city of NY be webcast.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Technologyintroduced 2018-03-07

Filed — closed without being enacted.

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Agenda: 2018-03-07Passed: 2021-12-31

Summary

Requires a live webcast of board of trustees meetings of public libraries, and it requires that such webcasts be archived and made publically available on a City website.

Committee on TechnologyTechnology in New York City, Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (non- land use-related issues), Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment, NYC TV, and dissemination of public information through the use of technology.

How it compares

16% of similar bills passed

8 passed · 42 died

This bill: 1394 days in committee

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Sponsors (1)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2018-03-07 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2018-03-07 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2021-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2018-03-07 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (5)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Subdivision d of section 1063 of the New York city charter is amended to read as follows: d. 1. Each city agency, committee, commission, task force, and the council shall record or cause to be recorded in digital video format its meetings and hearings, or portions thereof, that are required to be public pursuant to article seven of the public officers law, provided that this section shall not apply to community boards or local school boards. Such recordings shall be webcast live, where practicable, and shall be archived and made available to the public on the city's website or on the website of such agency, committee, commission, task force, or council, not more than seventy-two hours after adjournment of the meeting or hearing recorded. 2. The department of information technology and telecommunication, or its successor agency, shall record or cause to be recorded in digital video format the meetings, or portions thereof, that are required to be public pursuant to article seven of the public officers law, of all local authorities and entities subject to section two hundred sixty-a of the education law in the city of New York. Such recordings shall be webcast live, where practicable, and shall be archived and made available to the public on the city's website not more than seventy-two hours after adjournment of the meeting recorded. � 2. This local law shall take effect one hundred twenty days after its enactment. LS 1105/ Int 525-2014 LS 537 JCH/MAJ 12/28/17 3:21 PM