After the soundless
10 June 2013 Lowndes County Commission Work Session,
Gretchen requested,
County Clerk Paige Dukes promised and a few days later delivered,
sound recordings on CDs of both that meeting and the next day’s
Regular Session.
LAKE thanks the County Clerk for those recordings.
Gretchen has integrated the county sound with the LAKE video recordings
and I have updated
the Work Session blog post. But what about state open records law?
These CDs demonstrate the county does make recordings
of the Commission meetings, at least of sound.
The County Clerk told Gretchen the recordings are erased after the Clerk
is finished with them.
Hm, since such recordings are records of public meetings, wouldn’t
that make them public open records?
And if they are, wouldn’t destroying them be illegal?
According to
state law on the GA Secretary of State’s website: