"Publishing" Minutes

[Guest Robert B. Fish]

Your state legislature publishes its minutes.

If your group posts them on the web or prints copies in your newsletter, that is NOT "publishing" them in this sense. This term causes some confusion and many of us look forward to seeing"

[Guest Kim Goldsworthy]

Amy,

In the (U.S.) congressional sense, the key elements are probably:

(a.) nonmembers can view the document(s) without a current member's intervention making access possible. -- It's just "out there" for anybody to read.

(b.) loss o"

[Guest Amy]

Bob -

Do you have any point of reference I can use in arguing your point? My instinct when initially reading this language is exactly as you describe, I just don't have anyting to back up my position.

Thanks for taking the time to re"

[Guest George Mervosh]

Sadly RONR doesn't provide backup, which is why Bob and I and the world is confident RONR 11 will clear it up.

Are you under pressure regarding this matter or just intellectual curiousity?"

[Guest Dan Honemann]

If your organization is in doubt about whether or not it is "publishing" its minutes within the meaning of the rules in RONR, you can count upon the fact that it isn't."

[Guest Robert B. Fish]

I'm afraid the above answer from the authorship team is the best "proof" that you can get just yet. Just tell them, "because Dan said so." <g>

-Bob"

[Guest Dan]

Dan, What is your sense, then, of what "published" means for governmental bodies (town boards, city councils, etc.) that are either required to publish their minutes in a local newspaper or, at a minimum, make the minutes of their meetings avai"

[Guest Dan Honemann]

Dan, it is necessary to read (and understand) the laws which require such publication or accessibility in order to know exactly what it is that they require.

RONR is referring to voluntary publication of an organization's proceedings."

[Guest H.Wm.Mountcastle]

>>RONR is referring to voluntary publication of an organization's proceedings.<<

Which is not to say it knows what "publication" is but, like Justice Stewart and pornography, it knows it when it sees it.

And it rare"

[Guest Ann Rempel]

<<RONR is referring to voluntary publication of an organization's proceedings.>>

And when an organization voluntarily puts its minutes on a Web site for the world to see, it is understandaable (at least to me) that readers may think t"

[Guest John M.]

>>And when an organization voluntarily puts its minutes on a Web site for the world to see, it is understandaable (at least to me) that readers may think the minutes are "published" as the word is used on p.458.<<

I suspect "

[Guest Amy]

I am getting pressure on the issue. I would like to say I have the time to look for things that I think are intellectually curious, but unfortunately, I don't. The pressure is that some individuals are using the "publishing" language to say th"

[Guest H.Wm.Mountcastle]

>>the demand is for verbatim minutes<<

Well, unless this "demand" is made by a majority, you can ignore it.

And if there is a majority in favor of verbatim minutes, one of them should be willing to serve as secretar"

[Guest John M.]

>>In short, the demand is for verbatim minutes of the proceedings where 80 individuals each spoke for about 15 minutes on a subject, based on the fact that our minutes are "published" on our website.<<

Ultimately, such a dec"