Are local governments using coronavirus to hide information? Advocates worry that as states alter open government amid coronavirus, everything from clean water to safe roads could be impacted.
Her daughter was hospitalized after she drank from a well it poisoned.
“No public discussion, no reporting on issues by journalists present, no sharing of information, no publicity. Who benefits from that? Certainly not the residents impacted by this project,” Fuller said. In other cases, officials have been accused of using social distancing measures to retaliate against journalists and block public access to meetings.
“Is open government going to be the first casualty of this coronavirus?” asked Amye Benshaver, who served for 25 years as an assistant attorney general in Kentucky and now works for an open government coalition there. “I knew immediately this was going to create challenges, and I’m hoping when this passes we can resume business as usual.”The small East Texas city of Palestine bungled its first remote meeting on March 23. A staffer recorded the meeting on a cell phone and posted it to Facebook.
The Conejo Valley United School District in Thousand Oaks, California, was forced to adjourn its Zoom meeting on March 24 after an anonymous attendee began cursing and broadcasting porn.“It was reprehensible. If the perpetrators are members of the UT community, they will be disciplined. We will also increase online security for all UT staff to prevent similar incidents,” University President Gregory L. Fenves said on Twitter.
Palmer added that the trustees Harris had written about were later cleared of any wrongdoing by a committee of four other trustees who consulted with staff and independent legal counsel. There are nine trustees total.Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, commissioners met recently to talk by phone with the governor about its COVID-19 response.
Diehl said the reporters shouldn’t have been at the government center in the first place because it was closed and live video and social media feeds had been provided.When public agencies don’t meet, it can delay decisions that affect life, like access to clean drinking water and safe roads.Since Sunoco/Energy Transfer’s contamination of her water sickened her daughter last summer, the company has delivered hundreds of water bottles to her home each week.
Because Sunoco/Energy Transfer is asking to change its existing permit, he said, the agency isn’t required to hold a public hearing anyway. It only scheduled them because the permit was controversial when it was issued in 2017.
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