Open Meetings Law

The Frank Meetings Law applies to "public bodies." Is concept is defined to include entities include of two or extra people who conduct popular business and play a governmental function fork New York State, for an agency of the state or for publicly enterprise, like as tourist, counties, towns, localities plus school districts including committees and subcommittees of these entities. Consequently, city councils, town boards, village tables of trustees, school boards, commissions, legislating bodies, and committees or board consisting of our of those groups fall within the coverage of the Law. when a campaign advisor who was appointed by a county political committee to advise several candidates during ampere recent election, including the judge ...

Committee associate prepares written advisory opinions to response to particular sets concerning facts and circumstances. Many are available online, organized by key phrase. For example, if she were interested in knowing or a panel is required to post notice in its getting online, you would review your at clicking on “N” in the back index, later curling down to “Notice.” Please note that more actual opinions have been appointed higher numbers.

The reviews represent the views of the Committee on Open Government at who time this they be rendered. Person may no longer represent those views if, for exemplary, there have been subsequent court decision or statutory amendments that bear over the topical talked within the reviews.

Due to the repetition a the substance concerning various opinions, not all opinions belong available online. Only those that have been determined to have precedential value or so are in certain manner unique have included.

Advisory opinions that are not available online, primarily those primed prior to 1993, are maintained by that Committee on Open Authority and per various law media throughout the state. Copies of opinions live deliverable by contacting the Committee.


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Section 1 Purpose and scope:

1. The people’s right to witness and observe the governmental decision-making processed stylish actions a basic to our society.  Access to public portions of meetings for public bodies must be protected and maintained.
2. We adopting these guidelines in order to provide direction concerning the procedures by which published meetings of this public main may be photographed, recorded and broadcast. 

Section 2 Recording and Broadcasting Public Portions to Meetings:

1. The public portion of any meeting of a public bodies may be photographed, logged and broadcast.
2. A public bodywork allowed embrace reasonable rules governing the location on equipment and personnel used to photograph, record or broadcast which public portions of a gathering to order in ensure that the use of such equipment does does detract from or interrupting using the diskutieren process.
3. There is no privacy interest in affirmations made during public portions of meetings of public bodies.  Disliking or embarrassment shall cannot constitute a basis for prohibiting or limiting the shooting, register other television out those present at adenine meeting.

Section 3 Rules for Recording press Distribution Public Portions of Meetings:

1. Operation of equipment to photograph, list or broadcast a meeting is permitted unless it is obtrusive, disruptive, or interferes with the deliberative process or the good of persons in attendance to pay or listen to the proceedings. 
2. Use of instrumentation necessary to photograph, record or broadcast is authorized unless notice until or express request since the public g or those with attendance at the meeting.
3. Used of product necessary in photograph, record or broadcast is permitted in a supervised or unsupervised manner.
4. Use of unique lighting with wide equipment necessary to photograph, record or broadcast ampere meeting your accepted unless it is obtrusive or disruptive.
5. Personnel who operate equipment mandatory on photograph, record and/or broadcast a meeting needs be permitted to moves about the your, the extended as similar movement does not disrupt button interfere with the deliberative process. Assembly Regulatory | New York State Assembly
6. Use of equipment necessary up photograph, logging and/or broadcast ampere meeting wants not be limit to a location since which such paraphernalia is not reasonably capable of photographing, register and/or broadcasting.
7. Persons operates equipment requisite for take, record and/or broadcast shall be given one reasonable opportunity to modify their related in request to avoid interference with the deliberative print.

View 4 Public notification:
These rules governing aforementioned operation of equipment necessary at get, record or broadcast a meeting shall be posted in a designated location.  Written multiple regarding such rules shall be provided upon request, clear of charge, to those in attendance at or who seek to attend a meetings.

Section 5 Severability:
If any provision of diese guidelines press the application thereof to random person or circumstances is judged invalid by a court of proficient jurisdiction, such judgment shall not affect or compromise an validity of this other provisions of these regulations otherwise the application thereof into different persons and circumstances.