{"id":2767,"date":"2023-03-22T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2023-03-22T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T01:30:08","slug":"cell-phone-use-by-board-members-during-public-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=2767","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phone Use by Board Members During Public Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A number of people have asked should cell phones be used by board members during public meetings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a presentation to Londonderry town boards in 2017 Stephen C Buckley, Esq from the New Hampshire Municipal Association suggested the short answer is no to put the cell phones away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cell Phone Use: Effective Public Meetings &amp; The Right to Know Law 6\/22\/2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rP3wao0ILyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2776\"\/><figcaption>Town Council Chairman, John Farrell, checking his phone during a Council meeting<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of people have asked should cell phones be used by board members during public meetings? In a presentation to Londonderry town boards in 2017 Stephen C Buckley, Esq from the New Hampshire Municipal Association suggested the short answer is no to put the cell phones away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}