Evergreen School District Revises Meeting Recording Policy

0:00The Evergreen School District Board and Clark County, Washington just voted 3-1 on March 24th to push forward a revised policy on Recording public meetings it heads to a second reading soon with board member Gary Wilson as the only no vote The changes aimed to update rules last touched 12 years ago and match state law better at a workshop on March 17th They talked about dropping old language that let the board order detailed notes or keep audio and video files The new version requires audio recordings for all regular and special meetings where they take final actions or hear public comments It includes a good faith clause for giving tech glitches if they tried Teachers and parents push back hard saying this hits transparency during a budget crunch One cascade middle school teacher called it a waste of energy when free speech is at stake Parents worry in narrows meeting minutes and skips video or captions hurting access for everyone Board President Rob Perkins noted they've already recorded action meetings for years and these tweaks just formalized that

1:04He mentioned upcoming workshops on audience rules conduct and quorum to Critics points of shrinking public comments summaries and past video issues like missing speakers or captions lately meetings like the March 24th one show commenters on video with closed captions all uploaded to YouTube Still folks say protecting openness matters more than system tweaks keeping the community in the loop as this plays out Local news powered by AI this is Vancouver news today. I'm Corey with the story