Legislative leaders say all Indiana General Assembly committee meetings will be shown live online in the 2011 session for the first time.
In previous legislative sessions, House and Senate sessions and certain committee meetings were broadcast online. But House Speaker Brian Bosma says cameras and microphones have been installed in all Statehouse committee meeting rooms so that all meetings can be shown online.
Technology has changed the meaning of "public" meetings and proceedings -- they no longer encompass merely the people able to get to a specific physical location at a given time. More and more people understand that, the members of the Indiana Supreme Court, unfortunately, among the holdouts.
