CSORNY v. SHOREHAMWADING RIV.


305 A.D.2d 83 (2003)

759 N.Y.S.2d 513

In the Matter of AMY CSORNY et al., Appellants, v. SHOREHAMWADING RIVER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

May 12, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy A. Klein, Melville, for appellants.

Rains & Pogrebin, P.C., Mineola (Howard M. Miller and Richard G. Kass of counsel), for respondent.

SANTUCCI, J.P., and ALTMAN, J., concur with S. MILLER, J.; McGINITY, J., dissents and votes to affirm the judgment insofar as appealed from, in a separate opinion.


OPINION OF THE COURT

S. MILLER, J.

The legislative declaration to the Open Meetings Law (Public Officers Law § 100) begins: "It is essential to the maintenance of a democratic society that the public business be performed in an open and public manner." This appeal presents the issue of whether a board of education of a public school district may reserve unto itself the right to permit or prohibit videotaping of its public meetings. For the reasons that...

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