Move the minutes over to the disappearing crime stat reports. Notice anything below?
You read that correctly. The minutes have not been updated since early April. The City Council's Clerk is responsible for posting the minutes on the city's website. Of course, no members of the City Council have seemed to notice because it has never been mentioned in a City Council meeting. Unfortunately, more Jackson government is disappearing from the city's website.
Videos of the City Council meetings have not been posted on the city's website since April 11. The Mayor's office has been posting them on Facebook. However, those videos are the property of Facebook instead of the city of Jackson. Facebook can remove those videos at any time it so desires. The videos are not public records. The videos are not indexed. The agenda is indexed on the videos posted on the city's website. Such indexing allows viewers to click on an item on the agenda and immediately begin watching the discussion of that item. The Facebook videos have no such indexing. Thus citizens must hunt and peck through what are often three to four hour videos.
The crime reports disappeared from the city's website three years ago. Now it appears minutes and City Council videos are going the same way, right.
While more governments are making more information available online, the city of Jackson is hiding more and more from its citizens and that, my friends, is the bottom line.
24 comments:
Why doesn't anyone bring this up at a press conference after Mayor Transparency inevitably touts his transparent administration?
Does the mayor accept or answer questions at his “press conferences”?
The press has but the Mayor blows smoke!
Hizzoner and the council have nothing to hide, right?
As far as the crime reports, hizzoner stated months ago that it's only a perception of crime in Jackson. So there.
How’s this for transparency
The Office of the Mayor doesn’t recognize this hate/gossip blog as valid journalism.
A legitimate journalist would use their real name.
This blogger masks his bigotry with a ridiculous screen name.
does anyone actually work for the city of jackson? Most departments are vacant and you can never get anyone to answer a phone.
Before we assume anything nefarious, let's not forget this is the most incompetent city in the world.
How is it a hate blog? Where is the gossip? Not comments. I mean the actual posts. Come on girlfriend, pony up.
Kingfish, first, the irony arises from the fact that the ANONYMOUS poster at 11:39 is critical of you remaining anonymous. Second, when that same person uses the ad hominem worn-out liberal attack word "bigotry," everything he said in his post is, at that point, meaningless.
Your blog is still the only source for truthful information in Jackson.
"legitimate journalist" = oxymoron
11:39, great deflection from answering the question raised by this article. So the Mayor, and I guess you too, don't consider this blog to be real journalism or KF to be a real journalist. But the fact remains that the Mayor claims to be transparent and the most transparent Mayor in decades. But yet the crime stats haven't been published on the City's website for 3 years, the minutes from the last 10 City Council meetings haven't been posted, and the videos of the City Council meetings haven't been posted in 8 months. Why ? Is it the inability or incompetency of the City, or is there something to hide ? Regardless, the Mayor should stop claiming to be so transparent when he is not.
This is what I mean when I call CJ LeBadAss out for being a shill journalist.
He is fine with going ham on conservatives but he refuses to address the shortfalls in Jackson...because "muh liberals".
I have no issue with his calling out Bryan Bailey. It is clearly warranted!
I am just so sick of the refusal to do the same to leaders in Jackson.
It is criminal that they refuse to shine light on the horrors that the inept city leaders are causing those impoverished citizens.
Just called WLBT. Was told they have someone at the Council Mtg in progress. Requested WLBT ask a question about lack of up to date Council Mtg Minutes and lack of recent crime statistics.
What the mayor means by "transparency" is that they will release information within the time frame set by the personnel in charge, depending on their competence. Really.
So f'ing ironic that the brain dead trustee @11:39 AM isn't asking why the legitimate journalists are not pushing for this basic level of transparency.
Is there anything, anything at all, working while this half-Mayor is in charge?
Reply to 11:39 AM
"How’s this for transparency"
The Office of the Kingfish present to the public truth, justice, and the American way! A very valid, informative, & honest journalism website. Kingfish doesn't change what is anonymously posted. This is the best blog in Mississippi, hands down.
"A legitimate journalist would use their real name. They don't have to post their name to express the truth."
"This blogger masks his bigotry with a ridiculous screen name."
DumbAss, Kingfish is not a quote quote blogger, but a Website Administrator.
Go troll on the many other liberal websites with your misinformation.
If the peoples of Jackson settle for nothing, they will get nothing.
The video and audio quality of the meetings they air on Facebook is really crappy. Guess they can’t afford a new microphone or a competent videographer.
Little Chocky aka 11:39 truth hurts when it’s true and you cannot spin it. This administration is incompetent, irresponsible and useless. History will prove exactly that.
Didn't this same situation occur during the garbage collection crisis? Seems like minutes from more than a few city council meetings hadn't been completed & made available to the public, so there was no official record for the city council & mayor to work from. What does this clerk do? Does she even show up for work most days?
Crime stats report should be required by state law from the police chief and made a part of the minutes. Penalties for noncompliance should be set by law and enforceable.
"A legitimate journalist would use their real name."
He has used his real name on several occasions as we regular readers of this blog are well aware.
Apparently you are too feeble-minded to see through the cloud of purple haze that surrounds him when he does ;-)
In taking the challenge to locate something worth noticing (see OP), it might be helpful if all those detailed items were listed chronologically.
I would think they take you serious... looks like a few more recent up may 9th ish have been added to the website ;)
Post a Comment