Press Club of Long Island

The shield law bill, S. 448, has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. It will now go to the full Senate.

The Suffolk County Police Department announced that Freedom of Information Law (F.O.I.L.) requests for police and motor vehicle crash reports can now be made online through the police department’s Web site, www.suffolkpd.org.

The ceremony was at the Holiday Inn, Plainview, where we normally held our other PCLI meetings. There was no dinner. Just a bunch of seats in a small room with thin walls, where, as usual, we were being drowned out by the noise of a union meeting in an adjacent room.

From SPJ’s newsletter: ABSURDIA IN ISLANDIA   Journalists and the general public on Long Island are scratching their heads after one municipal body, the Islandia Village Board, briefly considered banning audio and video recording and transmission of public meetings. The Press Club of Long Island, the local chapter of SPJ, strongly opposed the proposal. In [...]

It has been reported that the village of Islandia has tabled its discussion of a proposed ordinance to ban audio and video recordings of public meetings and transmission of those recordings. A hearing on the motion had been scheduled for Oct. 7. The PCLI statement is nonetheless still being sent to the village to let them know [...]

This proposed ordinance is simply crazy. I believe that if this law were to be enacted it would make Islandia the laughing stock of New York, and the country, and cost taxpayers thousands of dollars in legal costs to defend, and eventually have tossed out, a proposal that is counter to New York case law [...]

Oct. 6, 2008   A hearing is scheduled for Oct. 7 by the Islandia Village Board in Suffolk County on a local ordinance that, if approved, would bar the audio or video recording and transmission of recordings of public meetings. The Press Club of Long Island, the local chapter of the national Society of Professional Journalists, opposes [...]