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Richland School District 1 committee reviews new livestreaming, swearing-in and committee membership policies
Summary
Administrators presented proposed updates to three board policies — live streaming (BEA), board meetings (BE), and board committees (BDE) — to comply with a state law requiring audio and video livestreams, clarify swearing-in timing after county certification, and allow community experts to serve on committees; no policy votes were held.
Doctor Tiffany Richardson presented proposed revisions to three board policies to the Richland School District 1 administration committee on Oct. 7, saying the changes respond to a state law and recent audit recommendations.
"Policy BEA, this is a new policy which will set forth the district's protocol to provide the community with live stream access to all board meetings," Doctor Tiffany Richardson said, describing a new policy modeled on the South Carolina School Boards Association language and the South Carolina Department of Education's model language. Richardson said legislation signed on 05/12/2025 "basically mandates that all school boards livestream both video and audio," and that the district must comply for regular meetings and, under the new language, for committee meetings…
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