Sunday, July 06, 2014
Disappeared: Honolulu City Council hearing videos
By H. Doug Matsuoka
If you want to catch the Honolulu City Council hearings you
could always count on the hearing videos being mounted within minutes at the
Council's citizen page (http://honolulucountyhi.iqm2.com/Citizens/calendar.aspx).
No longer. The last video mounted is of the May 28, 2014, Budget Committee
meeting.
This made it difficult for me to find out what happened at
the June 26, 2014, Planning and Zoning Committee hearing where the newest slew
of bills criminalizing homelessness were to be heard after being rushed through
first hearing that very morning. The video wasn't mounted, and I noticed
nothing mounted since May 28.
The DVD I requested was delivered a couple of days later,
but this sort of disappearing act doesn't speak to the transparency in
government issue very well, does it?
Since the Council didn't post a video, I guess I'll do it
here as a public service if you want to watch the whole 3.5 hearing. Else I'll
have excerpts and something to say in a few hours.
In the meantime, why not email your Councilmember and demand
that hearing videos be posted immediately after the hearing.
Stay tuned for some excerpts regarding criminalization of
the homeless...
6 July 2014
Makiki, Honolulu
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