Those unable to attend Board of Education meetings can once again watch them on Comcast Cablevision's Educational Access Channel 26.
The announcement was made at Thursday night's Board of Education meeting.
The meetings and other board programs have not been aired since May, when some residents raised questions about using the channel to air programs on potentially controversial topics, such as the Bethel High School renovation.
The residents took their complaint to the Danbury Bethel Ridgefield Cable Advisory Council, which oversees Channel 26, and the show was dropped.
Dianne Eppinger, advisory council chairman, in an Oct. 31 letter to board chairman Stuart Carlsen, said after consulting with Comcast, the Bethel Board of Education meetings may be aired on Channel 26.
The item was not discussed at the school board's Nov. 2 meeting. Members tabled the issue until the December meeting.
At Thursday's meeting, parent Jan Neuner said she was thrilled to hear Channel 26 will again allow the Board of Education to show gavel-to-gavel recordings of its meetings.
Neuner is the president of the Bethel Central Parent Teacher Organization.
"Some parents are not even home from work at 7:30 p.m., especially dads," said Neuner of people who can't attend the meetings but want to stay informed about education topics in the district.
"I didn't understand it at all," she said of people who thought it was controversial to have the meetings aired.
In the past the school board televised many hours of programming on Channel 26, with shows ranging from school sports and "Meet the New Teachers" to Harry Potter book discussions.
During the controversy, none of this programming was shown.
Bethel School Superintendent Gary Chesley was pleased with the outcome.
"I know we have got a lot of positive feedback over the years," said Chesley about having the board of education meetings on Channel 26.
"The feedback from people is they like to see information," said board member Matthew Knickerbocker.
In little Bethel, they have their meetings braodcasted but in Danbury, we get the runaround.
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
