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Rules committee discusses easing online access for reporters in the gallery, asks staff to draft policy
Summary
The committee debated whether to allow reporters in the balcony to use online devices and asked the secretary to draft a proposed policy outlining who may be online, where, and what activities are permitted.
The Senate Rules Committee discussed relaxing its restriction on online device use by reporters in the gallery and asked the secretary to draft a policy for the committee to review.
Currently, committee staff said, reporters may type in the gallery but may not be online. A committee member reported that the original technological rationale (interference with in-chamber signals) no longer applies, and the chair said he was “inclined to relax the rule” to allow reporters in the balcony to be…
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