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Norwin residents press board over removed meeting videos; superintendent vows review
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Residents and a transparency group urged the Norwin School District board to restore or explain disappearance of archived meeting videos. The superintendent said staff will investigate and consider records-retention policy changes; the district solicitor said there is no absolute legal obligation to retain recordings.
Residents and an accountability group told the Norwin School District Board of Education on Monday that videos of past public meetings have been removed from the district’s YouTube channel and urged the board to restore them or explain why they were taken down.
Nicholas Carroza, who identified himself as the founder of the local group Accountability Now Norwin, said deleted or private recordings undermine public trust and compared Norwin’s finances to Penn Hills, a district that later required state intervention. “Deleting videos of public meetings, especially on topics involving tens of millions of dollars in public money, is not just poor practice,” Carroza said. “It’s…not right.”
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