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Technological Sunshine- Thinking Out The Details
Submitted by reform4 on Fri, 2008/03/28 - 9:09pm.
Bill Dunn's bill to use chat rooms to offer "sunshined" discussion between officials covered by the Open Meetings Act is moving forward.
However, it's always good to think out the details. What specifics should this bill include?
Archive of all conversations for elected term + 1 year (e.g., 9 years for Knox County Commissioners)
All posts must be keyword searchable, with complex queries allowed (e.g., show all posts by Commissioner X, with keyword "TIF" and keyword "Halls" in the same post)
If we choose to allow public comments, I would recommend a blog engine like Scoop, that allows registered users to build rating points based on comments other users find useful or, on the other side, lose points by 'trolling.' Other users can then filter comments from users below a certain rating value (it's not censorship, since it's the choice of each individual user to set the viewing threshold).
I would also suggest how KNS uses "suggest removal" to allow a county administrator to remove potentially libelous posts.
Submitted by Tamara Shepherd on Fri, 2008/03/28 - 10:04pm.
Oh, I don't know...I can think of a handful of commissioners whom I expect couldn't construct a single intelligible sentence at the keyboard, and wouldn't attempt it.
Commissioners' conversations might be thinner than you suggest.
Has anyone suggested video chat? Ugg... I'd just leave it to text.
Or did you mean archived videos of public meetings? That's an entirely different issue. If such meetings have been publicized, they wouldn't need to be archived in forms other than what we do now.
BUT- that brings a good point, the language would need to include archive of any files transferred during a chat (powerpoint presentations, images, etc).
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Fighting for Reform and Representation, Fourth District
Steve Drevik, Commission Seat 4-B Link...
Archive of all conversations for elected term + 1 year (e.g., 9 years for Knox County Commissioners)
Isn't that a tremendous amount of data? If you include video it is many terabytes per Commissioner. State wide that could cost a little.
Oh, I don't know...I can think of a handful of commissioners whom I expect couldn't construct a single intelligible sentence at the keyboard, and wouldn't attempt it.
Commissioners' conversations might be thinner than you suggest.
Has anyone suggested video chat? Ugg... I'd just leave it to text.
Or did you mean archived videos of public meetings? That's an entirely different issue. If such meetings have been publicized, they wouldn't need to be archived in forms other than what we do now.
BUT- that brings a good point, the language would need to include archive of any files transferred during a chat (powerpoint presentations, images, etc).
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Fighting for Reform and Representation, Fourth District
Steve Drevik, Commission Seat 4-B
Link...
And they said charter amendments could produce unintended consequences...
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