01/18/2017

Why One Advocacy Group is Recording all Legislative Hearings

The action is to ensure transparency, honesty within the government

Progress Virginia’s Eyes on Richmond project, developed as a workaround to the state’s decision not to record committee hearings itself for public consumption, is an effort at “radical transparency” in legislation, according to the group.

A Virginia advocacy group—with the help of a bevy of videographers—is working to solve one of the state legislature’s largest transparency problems.

Earlier this month, Progress Virginia launched its Eyes on Richmond project, an effort to televise Virginia General Assembly committee hearings. This solves a gap in access: Currently, daily floor sessions in the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate are broadcast online, but the committee hearings—where much of the action around legislation takes place—aren’t. And the state doesn’t store video from these sessions for later watching.

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