Csorny v. Shoreham-Wading River Central School District
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
S. Miller, J.
The legislative declaration to the Open Meetings Law (Public Officers Law § 100) begins: “It is essential to the maintenance of a democratic society that the public business be performed in an open and public manner.” This appeal presents the issue of whether a board of education of a public school district may reserve unto itself the right to permit or prohibit videotaping of its public meetings. For the reasons that follow, we answer that question in the negative.
The facts underlying this appeal are not in substantial dispute. The individual respondents…
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