{"id":799,"date":"2012-06-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/nydia-tisdale-returns-to-city-council-where-she-was-thrown-out-for-videoing.html"},"modified":"2012-06-01T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:00:00","slug":"nydia-tisdale-returns-to-city-council-where-she-was-thrown-out-for-videoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/nydia-tisdale-returns-to-city-council-where-she-was-thrown-out-for-videoing.html","title":{"rendered":"Nydia Tisdale returns to city council where she was thrown out for videoing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember Nydia Tisdale, who got illegally ejected from a Cumming City Council meeting for videoing an open meeting?<\/a> <\/a> She’s back, in the front row, videoing.<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously we called Cumming someplace worse than here.<\/a> But look at this:<\/p>\n

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A city of Cumming audio-visual recording policy sheet was available outside council chambers.<\/p>\n

“Handheld audio and\/or visual recording devices may be used from any location within the public seating area,” wrote Gerald Blackburn, city administrator. “No audio and\/or visual recording device may be set up in the aisles.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hm, that’s better than the Lowndes County Commission, whose chair Ashley Paulk famously said,<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cThe County Commission wishes from this day forward that any filming be done from the media area in the back corner of the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Lowndes County Commission formalized that opinion of the chair with a bill of attainder<\/a> that it doesn’t enforce when other people video.<\/p>\n

Why did the City of Cumming change its tune? Justin Gray wrote for FoxAtlanta.com 15 May 2012, Cameras allowed at Cumming City Council meeting<\/a>,<\/p>\n

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Since then, Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens stepped in to make sure that the state’s Sunshine Laws, which allow videotaped recordings of public meetings, were enforced.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another videoer, Brant Meadows, not only videoed the same Cumming meeting <\/a> at the same time, he mounted a visual protest. Aldo Nahed wrote for Appen Newspapers 14 May 2012, Tisdale returns to City Hall, wielding camera<\/a>,<\/p>\n

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Brant Meadows made a political statement by wrapping a video camera and tripod with \u201cCaution\u201d tape during the May 8 city of Cumming special called meeting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It does seem like a cautionary tale.<\/p>\n

-jsq<\/p>\n

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