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Council weighs risks of allowing videos, slide decks in citizen presentations; staff flags cybersecurity and legal costs
Summary
City staff outlined cybersecurity, recordkeeping and legal concerns about allowing electronic presentations at council meetings. Councilmembers expressed widespread concern about security, moderation and potential lawsuits and generally favored retaining the current process while asking staff to draft formal policy options.
City staff presented a summary of considerations for allowing PowerPoints, videos and other digital media during citizen presentations at North Richland Hills council meetings and told the council that such materials would create additional cybersecurity and public-record responsibilities.
“External devices such as laptops, flash drives, smartphones can create liability for the health of our network,” Trudy, staff lead on the item, told the council and said the legislature’s cybersecurity training requirements factor into any…
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