Tinmouth planners favor limiting public availability of meeting videos and will ask selectboard to decide

Commission members discussed whether recorded meeting videos should remain publicly available on YouTube forever. Committee member (S4) described a state training that recommended deleting posted videos 30 days after the minutes are approved; several members raised privacy and artificial-intelligence misuse concerns as reasons to remove videos from public access after a short retention period.

"You're volunteering for public service... and your likeness can be stuck (on the Internet) till the end of time," Chair (S3) said, arguing for a limited online retention period and for alternative storage models. Committee member (S4) offered to take the commission's general feeling to the selectboard; the commission broadly favored not leaving videos in public view indefinitely and discussed keeping in-house copies or making recordings private after an interval.

Members also asked the website committee to explore alternative storage approaches and formats that reduce bandwidth and privacy exposure (e.g., storing local copies off YouTube or using lower-bandwidth audio formats). The commission did not adopt a formal policy but agreed to refer the question to the selectboard for a uniform cross-board decision.