Right-to-Know: June 2008 Archives
The Meredith News June 19th, 2008
SARAH SCHMIDT
MEREDITH — Third time could be the charm for the Inter-Lakes School Board meetings to be broadcast on publiccable access - if the board agrees on it as a good use of time and money. At earlier meetings this year, several parents have requested that the meetings be taped and broadcast on Lakes Region Public Access. Parent Steve Merrill advocated this practice at last week’s meeting. “It’s critically important that the board adopts a policy to promote open and transparent government,” said Merrill. “It’s long overdue, and it puts it in a forum where all can see what’s going on. It’s important the community can access the board.”....
The CItizen Saturday, June 14, 2008
The New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled that the hiring of Belknap County Sheriff Craig Wiggin by the Belknap County Legislative Delegation was illegal because the vote was taken secretly instead of in public.
Lakes Region political activists Doug Lambert of Gilford and Thomas Tardiff of Laconia had challenged the convention's selection of Wiggin to replace Dan Collis, who left mid-term to take a job in the private sector. The pair filed a lawsuit in Belknap County Superior Court and Judge Bruce Mohl ruled that the replacement process followed by the delegation violated the state's Right-to-Know Law by using a secret ballot, but said that the entire process could have been conducted in nonpublic session.
But in an 11-page opinion released on Friday, the Supreme Court found ....
The Citizen Friday, June 13, 2008
It's interesting that on the one hand there are people with an insatiable appetite for information and on the other hand there are those who find themselves ill at ease with some means of getting information out to the public.
The Inter-Lakes School Board is finding itself on the horns of just this dilemma.
On Tuesday, the board took up a request that its meetings be videotaped with the idea that they then could be shown on public access television.
While the board did agree to look into the request further, the board's initial reaction to this request was at best ambivalent......
