Cornwall Council currently restricts the rights of those who might wish to film its meetings. To do so, you need to give 48 hours notice. This is seen by some to be overly restrictive and has been challenged by a local journalist. The government has also suggested that councils adopt a more open stance.
Our current rules are also unclear in the case of non-professional media - an increasing market.
Today, in my role as cabinet member for communications, I announced that the council will be seeking views on whether and how to open up the system to encourage people to film us and to do things like live blog or tweet from meetings. My personal view is that it will do us no harm to welcome more filming and other coverage and, by doing so, we will engage more with the public.
All councillors are being encouraged to have their say, but we also want to hear from journalists and from the public about what rules they want to see in place.
The views of everyone who wants to have their say will be fed back via the council's Constitution and Governance Committee and will then be voted on by the next meeting of full council on September 3rd.
The mechanism for having your say will be announced shortly. But, in the meantime, if you have any thoughts, please leave them in the comments section.
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Our current rules are also unclear in the case of non-professional media - an increasing market.
Today, in my role as cabinet member for communications, I announced that the council will be seeking views on whether and how to open up the system to encourage people to film us and to do things like live blog or tweet from meetings. My personal view is that it will do us no harm to welcome more filming and other coverage and, by doing so, we will engage more with the public.
All councillors are being encouraged to have their say, but we also want to hear from journalists and from the public about what rules they want to see in place.
The views of everyone who wants to have their say will be fed back via the council's Constitution and Governance Committee and will then be voted on by the next meeting of full council on September 3rd.
The mechanism for having your say will be announced shortly. But, in the meantime, if you have any thoughts, please leave them in the comments section.
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