{"id":430787,"date":"2010-03-15T13:36:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a93be75d970b"},"modified":"2010-03-15T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:36:49","slug":"video-of-chicago-city-council-meetings-now-archived-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/430787","title":{"rendered":"Video of Chicago City Council meetings now archived online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Hal Dardick<\/em> at 12:35 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>City residents who want to see for themselves what happened at a City Council meeting now can find video archives of the meetings on the Web, city Clerk Miguel del Valle announced today.<\/p>\n<p>Del Valle\u2019s office went live this morning with this link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicityclerk.com\/City_Council_Video_Archive.php\">http:\/\/www.chicityclerk.com\/City_Council_Video_Archive.php<\/a>, which\u00a0includes council meetings\u00a0back to October.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the next few months, you will see an improvement in the quality of the recordings,\u201d del Valle said. \u201cThis is just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joining del Valle in announcing his new effort were various government watchdog group leaders, who said making the videos accessible on line would improve transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do a lot, they control a $6 billion budget,\u201d said former Ald. Dick Simpson, now a government professor at University of Illinois at Chicago. \u201cIt\u2019s important as citizens that we hold them accountable, and we\u2019re able to see exactly what they do, how they do it and whether they are truly representing us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Del Valle had authority to put the meeting archives on line because the council already had given his office the right to stream them live on the Web, as it has done for about two years.<\/p>\n<p>But the council has not signed off on airing the meetings on cable TV, and Andy Shaw, executive director of the Better Government Association, said that step should be taken because 40 percent of Chicago residents don\u2019t use the Internet as their primary source of information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese meetings should be televised on the city\u2019s cable channels,\u201d he said. \u201cLet\u2019s take the rest of the steps and do it right.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Hal Dardick at 12:35 p.m. City residents who want to see for themselves what happened at a City Council meeting now can find video archives of the meetings on the Web, city Clerk Miguel del Valle announced today. Del Valle\u2019s office went live this morning with this link http:\/\/www.chicityclerk.com\/City_Council_Video_Archive.php, which\u00a0includes council meetings\u00a0back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}