{"id":11788,"date":"2010-01-21T11:06:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=11788"},"modified":"2010-01-21T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:06:34","slug":"more-thoughts-on-steinborn%e2%80%99s-webcasting-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/01\/more-thoughts-on-steinborn%e2%80%99s-webcasting-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"More thoughts on Steinborn\u2019s webcasting resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heath Haussamen<\/p><\/div>\n

After a couple of conversations this morning, I have some follow-up thoughts about a posting<\/a> I published earlier today about State Rep.\u00a0Jeff Steinborn\u2019s<\/a> webcasting legislation.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Steinborn\u2019s House Resolution 2<\/a> would combine two existing rules \u2013 one permanent and one temporary \u2013 into a permanent rule that would allow webcasting of House committee meetings during sessions.<\/p>\n

I expressed concern earlier today that the language in Steinborn\u2019s resolution doesn\u2019t make explicit that both official webcasting by Legislative Council Service and unofficial webcasting by lawmakers, journalists and others would be allowed.<\/p>\n

And that could lead to the possibility that some transparency-hating committee chair might use such a new rule as an excuse to shut down webcasting by a lawmaker, journalist or other person.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s easily fixed with a couple of revisions. Here\u2019s the relevant wording in Steinborn\u2019s resolution:<\/p>\n

\u201cPhotography, video or audio recording or transmission of committee proceedings may, upon request, be allowed with the permission of the chair, provided that the chair of each standing substantive committee shall cooperate with the legislative council service to produce a live audio or audio and video stream of the committee\u2019s proceedings within budget and technological constraints.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Add the words \u201cby anyone\u201d or \u201cby legislators, journalists and others\u201d or something like that after the words \u201ctransmission of committee proceedings\u201d and you\u2019ve make crystal clear that the rule would allow unofficial webcasting by anyone, with permission of the committee chair. In the second part of that long sentence, instead of starting with the words \u201cprovided that,\u201d which seem to imply that the chair must cooperate with Legislative Council Services on any type of webcasting, start with the word \u201cand.\u201d<\/p>\n

That would set in place a rule that actually requires committee chairs to cooperate with Legislative Council Service on producing official audio or audio and video webcasts of committee meetings.<\/p>\n

Putting it all together, it would look something like this:<\/p>\n

\u201cPhotography, video or audio recording or transmission of committee proceedings by anyone may, upon request, be allowed with the permission of the chair, and the chair of each standing substantive committee shall cooperate with the legislative council service to produce a live audio or audio and video stream of the committee\u2019s proceedings within budget and technological constraints.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, if I had my druthers, unofficial webcasting wouldn\u2019t technically require permission of the committee chair to begin with.<\/p>\n

Thoughts?<\/p>\n

Haussamen bio<\/a> \u2502 Commentary archives<\/a> \u2502 Feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of revisions to Rep. Jeff Steinborn\u2019s webcasting legislation would ensure that unofficial webcasting of committee meetings is allowed and actually require committee chairs to work with Legislative Council Service on producing official webcasts of committee meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,10],"tags":[111,107],"class_list":["post-11788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-haussamen-columns","tag-open-government","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}