Decision details

To consider any recommendations it may wish to submit to Full Council on the filming of the authority’s public meetings following the publication of guidance by the Department for Communities and Local Government in June 2013 entitled ‘Your council’s cabinet – going to its meetings, seeing how it works’.

Council

AGREED

To allow members of the public to film its public meetings in accordance with newly published guidance by the Department of Communities and Local Government entitled “Your council’s cabinet – going to its meetings, seeing how it works”.

That Standing Order 21.4 of the Council’s Constitution (Recording of Business) be amended to read: -

“The recording in any format of any meeting of the Council, the Executive, or any committee or sub-committee of the Council or the Executive, is permitted, except: -

a)    Where the Chairman, or person presiding the meeting, rules that filming is being undertaken in such a way that it is disruptive or distracting to the good order and conduct of the meeting.

b)    Where the public have been excluded from the meeting in accordance with the Council’s Access to Information Procedure Rules (Rule 10) during the consideration of exempt or confidential information.”

Council further

AGREED        That the matter of whether the Council should film or broadcast its own meetings should be referred to the Corporate and Customer Services Portfolio holder.