Meetings of the Cumming City Council rarely make the evening news, but that changed last week with video of a woman being tossed out of the public gathering.
The woman, Nydia Tisdale, was attempting to film the council’s meeting April 17, but she was told that was not going to happen.
“We don’t allow filming inside of the City Hall here,” Mayor H. Ford Gravitt said, “unless there is a specific reason.”
PolitiFact Georgia thought the mayor’s statement was odd, considering our reporters have covered countless City Council meetings throughout the Atlanta region.
The city of Cumming is a political subdivision that must abide by the laws of the state of Georgia, which has clear guidelines that generally allow meetings of elected officials to be recorded on video. When the mayor uses the collective “we” in his statement, he is speaking as the elected head of
Article source: http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2012/apr/25/h-ford-gravitt/mayor-orders-camera-council-meeting/
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