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HI Under the openness of information act can a councillor choose to record a parish meeting?

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as slanderous comments were made by amember of the public at a previous meeting and it would give clarity to any proceedings
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In fact, anyone can record a council meeting, provided it doesn't interfere with the proceedings.  The council of which I'm a member records all meetings, in order to have a record should there be a dispute or a problem of inappropriate statements by anyone. Generally, we don't actually ever listen to the recordings, but they are retained just in case.
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