Debate over the use of iPads by city council members during meetings continues in Petaluma with no consensus as yet.
Some say that it is invaluable in allowing members to gain access to documents, research information and eliminate volumes of paper. Others say that the public may think that the iPads are being used to send and receive messages pertaining to city business in violation of the state’s open meeting law, the Brown Act. -db
From the Petaluma Patch, February 6, 2012, by Karina Ioffee.