Wouldn't this be a welcome change. How would the "rules" on oral communications handle this?
BOULDER, Colo. – Civil rights advocates
in Colorado are
urging a city council to reconsider a set of proposed roles that would
bar people from taking off their clothes, stomping their feet and
shouting at council meetings.
Boulder's so-called "rules of decorum" were inspired by an incident earlier this year when a man stripped down to his boxer shorts while speaking before the council. He was protesting a proposed anti-nudity law.
The proposed rules would also prohibit people from addressing comments toward individual council members, jeering or otherwise disrupting a meeting. The mayor would have the authority to remove people from the room if they're thought to have violated any of the rules.
The Boulder County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has criticized the measure as too vague.
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Information from: Daily Camera, http://www.dailycamera.com/
Boulder's so-called "rules of decorum" were inspired by an incident earlier this year when a man stripped down to his boxer shorts while speaking before the council. He was protesting a proposed anti-nudity law.
The proposed rules would also prohibit people from addressing comments toward individual council members, jeering or otherwise disrupting a meeting. The mayor would have the authority to remove people from the room if they're thought to have violated any of the rules.
The Boulder County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has criticized the measure as too vague.
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Information from: Daily Camera, http://www.dailycamera.com/
Jim Wagner
4 comments:
"How would the "rules" on oral communications handle this?"
"The proposed rules would also prohibit people from addressing comments toward individual council members, jeering or otherwise disrupting a meeting. The mayor would have the authority to remove people from the room if they're thought to have violated any of the rules."
It's already against the rules of oral communication to address any comments towards individuals. You're only supposed to be addressing the Council as a whole, not the individual members or staff or the audience or the TV camera. It says it right there on every agenda. "All remarks shall be addressed to the Council as a body and not to any member thereof." "Pursuant to Pacifica Municipal Code Title 2, Chapter 1, Section 2-1.118 any person making impertinent, slanderous, or profane remarks or who becomes boisterous while addressing the Council shall be called to order by the presiding officer and, if such conduct continues, may, at the direction of the presiding officer, be ordered barred from further audience before the Council during the meeting."
Hey Beavis...he said oral.
I just deleted a comment because a previous poster was called an "idiot." That kind of name-calling starts childish brawls.
Steve Sinai
"Butthead", citizen communications at city council are determined to be "oral communications" rather than "visual communications, or any other type of communications.
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