While more people might now participate in public meetings, given the convenience of logging on at home, the quality of resident engagement has taken a hit, says one Great Barrington resident who has been trying for more than a year to get the Select Board to shift from the webinar format. The webinar format might be more protective, but it has come under attack for being less transparent, since it doesn’t allow meeting participants to see who else might be attending the meeting, or allow group chats. “How can we be more vigilant?” Bannon said of the Zoom format. 8, when the panel wants the public to weigh in on a proposed vaccination mandate for students that would begin Jan 3. Bannon said they want to guard future meetings, particularly Dec. He later said that CTSB-TV didn’t have Zoom’s webinar format available, but that he and Dillon agree that they will inquire with the station about how to switch. School Committee Chairman Stephen Bannon said he had seen three people log on before they hijacked the meeting. It was during a discussion about renovating or rebuilding Monument Mountain Regional High School that a new window popped onto the videoconference screen and one or two voices narrated while a naked man performed various antics, then appeared to masturbate. Also, the station removed a recording of the meeting from its website. In this case, Community Television for the Southern Berkshires hosted and recorded the videoconference, and its executive director filed the police report. The panel now likely will switch its Zoom meetings to the “webinar” format, which restricts screen sharing and gives the host more control. Zoom official contacts West Stockbridge Police after hacker interrupts meeting with threats, racial slursĭuring Thursday’s incident, the people who joined the videoconference also targeted one of the School Committee’s female members, saying she was “hot.”Īfter an apology about the incident from Superintendent Peter Dillon, the committee quickly moved on to its next topic.

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