The Broadcasting of Local Authority Decision-making Bodies’ Meetings

Abstract

This paper is an attempt at showing the broadcasting of local community council meetings contributes to enhancing citizens’ participation in the administration of local community affairs. The same goal guided the legislator, too, whose Act Amending Certain Laws to Enhance Citizens’ Participation in the Process of Election, Operation, and Supervision of Certain Public Bodies dated 11 January 2018 introduced the duty of broadcasting and recording with recording equipment of the image and sound of the meetings of local authority decision-making bodies. First of all, the realisation of constitutional transparency needs to be emphasised, as reflected in local government legislation, inter alia, and incorporated in the access to meetings of the bodies and their committees and to documents, as well as the broadcasting of meetings. The study will apply the methods proper to legal sciences.