Comments on: Shaw ANC Antics: Caught on Tape!

By: car jacks

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By: Washington City Paper: News & Features: Blogs

Washington City Paper: News & Features: Blogs — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:13:01 +0000

[...] by Chair Doris Brooks—the first for no stated reason, the second because a community member started taping the proceedings—leaving ANC business, such as event permits and liquor-license applications, to Evans’ [...]

By: Sinclair Long, Esq.

Sinclair Long, Esq. — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:43:53 +0000

What's all the fuss about? Everyone at DCRA knows that "public meetings" don't actually mean public meetings.

By: Cary

Cary — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:10:43 +0000

This video documents a crystal clear violation of the DC Open Meetings Law, which Advisory Neighborhood Commissions must follow. As a government entity, ANC meetings must be open to the public (despite the statement by Chairperson Doris Brooks in the video that "This is not a public meeting!"

The Corporate Counsel (now renamed the Attorney General) has ruled that the open meeting law allows residents to record meetings so long as their doing so is not disruptive (i.e. walking around with a camera during the meeting, setting up lights blinding commissioners).

This ANC does not make minutes available, publish a newsletter, or otherwise inform residents of the actions it takes. It also has a history of acting in a highly unprofessional, devisive, disrespectful, and financially questionable manner (dolling out thousands of public dollars to friends and supporters for computers that are never put to public use and "tree boxes"). For these reasons, they fear a public record of their conduct -- hence this whole ridiculous shananigan about videotaping.

For the record:

DC Code 1-309.11(g):
"Each Commission shall be subject to the open meetings provisions of § 1-207.42. No meeting may be closed to the public unless personnel or legal matters are discussed...." The law also requires minutes of all meetings be available to the public.

D.C. Code 1-207.42: "a) All meetings (including hearings) of any department, agency, board, or commission of the District government, including meetings of the Council of the District of Columbia, at which official action of any kind is taken shall be open to the public. No resolution, rule, act, regulation, or other official action shall be effective unless taken, made, or enacted at such meeting.
(b) A written transcript or a transcription shall be kept for all such meetings and shall be made available to the public during normal business hours of the District government. Copies of such written transcripts or copies of such transcriptions shall be available, upon request, to the public at reasonable cost."

Corporate Counsel ruling finding that an ANC may not bar videotaping of public meetings: http://74.93.219.35/frames/DCA/Opinion/CCO-041499%20Videotaping%20Recording%20of%20ANC%20Meeting.pdf

The ANC bylaws also do not permit the Chairperson to unilaterally cancel meetings or change the meeting location.

DC law, bylaws, rules of order, whatever. Will anything be done to stop this clearly illegal conduct?

By: volvolution1

volvolution1 — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:04:11 +0000

Batman's keyboard is shaking like when he forgets to take his klonopin. Quite satisfying.

By: Batman

Batman — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:57:23 +0000

The video is shaking like the background does when somebody gets Scarecrow's drug gas sprayed on them in Batman Begins. Quite terrifying.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:52:51 +0000

Priceless.