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Following last year’s adoption of an ordinance restricting video-recording of the Township’s governing body meetings, Lyndhurst Township now pays for the service but has yet to make the videos readily available. The original plan when the Board of Commissioners voted to hire the videographer was to post the videos online on the Township’s official website. Read More …
UPDATE (5/10/2018): At its May 9, 2018 meeting, the Mansfield Twp. Committee adopted Ordinance 2018-02 by a vote of 4 to 1. Committeeman Michael Misertino voted against following his unsuccessful motion to make changes. UPDATE (4/30/2018): The second reading and public hearing for new Mansfield Twp. Ordinance 2018-02 is scheduled for May 9, 2018 at 8 Read More …
NUTLEY, NJ — Just prior to the start of the July 1 Planning Board meeting in Nutley Township, Board attorney Barry Kozyra told Township resident Pennie Landry, who had a camera set up and running, that she couldn’t video-record the Board’s workshop meeting that night. Feeling pressured, Landry turned off her camera, but not before Read More …