File #: Int 0533-2007    Version: Name: Requiring that all public meetings be webcast.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Technology in Government
On agenda: 3/14/2007
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring that all public meetings be webcast.
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Helen D. Foster, Vincent J. Gentile, Sara M. Gonzalez, G. Oliver Koppell, Michael C. Nelson, Annabel Palma, James Sanders, Jr., Larry B. Seabrook, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Alan J. Gerson, Thomas White, Jr., Bill De Blasio
Council Member Sponsors: 13
Attachments: 1. Int No 533 - 3/14/08, 2. Witness List 10/29/08, 3. Hearing Transcript 10/29/08, 4. Committee Report 10/29/08, 5. Hearing Testimony 10/29/08
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2009AGale A. Brewer City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/29/2008*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Technology in Government Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/29/2008*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Technology in Government Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/29/2008*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Technology in Government Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/14/2007*Gale A. Brewer City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/14/2007*Gale A. Brewer City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Proposed Int. No. 533-A

By Council Member Brewer, Foster, Gentile, Gonzalez, Koppell, Nelson, Palma, Sanders Jr., Seabrook, Mark-Viverito, Gerson, White Jr. and de Blasio

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring that all public meetings be webcast.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 1063 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new subdivision d to read as follows:

d. Each city agency, committee, commission and 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 subject to article seven of the public officers law.  Such recordings shall be webcast live, where practicable, and shall be archived and made available to the public on the city’s website or, in the case of the council, on the council’s website, not more than seventy-two hours after adjournment of the meeting or hearing recorded.

§2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment.

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LS #2420-A

3/27/08