NEW Local Government Search Engine

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Rebroadcast of Sioux Falls City plus School Board, School District and Minnehaha County government videos are paid for by the taxpayers of Sioux Falls SD. These video must be saved for the future.

See the agendas, minutes and video links at http://www.sfmeetings.org/

Transcripts of these meetings are available. Citizens should know what was said by all the meeting participants. Look to the Closed Captioning button. If you find a serious error from the system, let us know so we will try and help you fix it. This is a citizen effort and take no ownership or responsibility for the public videos.

Many of these videos will have a 15 minute delay before starting due to the operation of the operation of the city recording system. We grab the video before this is permanently trimmed off or other modifications are made. You are likely seeing the raw footage here.

The City of Sioux Falls and School District have been systemically or maliciously deleting publicly owned videos without explanation. This channel is reloading all available School plus City of Sioux Falls videos in the public interest for history, research and transparency.

Demand your city history NOT be destroyed. Contact your School Board, the City Council members and the Mayor and tell them to stop destroying our civic history.

We do not own these videos. We do not claim any copyright privileges. Share these videos freely.

 

Posted in: Media, SF City Council, Sioux Falls

9 Thoughts on “NEW Local Government Search Engine”

  2. come on on August 29, 2017 at 6:34 pm said:

    What is the legal requirement for governmental entities for meeting documentation? Are videos legally required, or are written minutes the legal requirement?

  3. l3wis on August 29, 2017 at 7:34 pm said:

    Good question. We recently found out that only written minutes are required. But what is nice about having them in YouTube is that they now can be transcribed, which is way better than minutes.

  4. come on on August 30, 2017 at 6:40 am said:

    What does the law say about retention of videos by governmental agencies? Are they subject to some sort of retention requirement?

  5. l3wis on August 30, 2017 at 9:21 am said:

    That is also an interesting question. I don’t ‘think’ they have to retain them. Two reasons we have been shown lately is that they have been deleting the YouTube videos, that is why we started to collect them. Also, a reason why we started retaining the City Council meetings is that they are switching over to a new form of SIRE and all the old videos may disappear. Our argument all along isn’t really about the legality of saving videos, our argument is that if tax payers already PAID to have them produced (Listening and Learning session videos cost over $400 to produce for each episode) and they are being stored for FREE on YouTube, why delete them? Huether is a hater of history, that is why. Go to the city YouTube channel and see how many videos you can find of Sideras?

  6. come on on August 30, 2017 at 7:36 pm said:

    Does YouTube have a limit on channel size? Maybe its a question of relevancy – who’s really interested in these types of videos after a certain amount of time (besides you and your crew)? I know this will probably piss you and your footsoldiers off, but are you making a mountain out of a mole hill?

  7. l3wis on August 30, 2017 at 8:16 pm said:

    I think the bigger point is that if we are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to create these videos, why would we delete them and not let them be a part of the historical record? It explains why the mayor fought the archive building so long, he only wants us to remember the positive things he has done. Reminds me a little of what’s happening right now in the South, that thousands of people died in war over the South’s greed, and how we forget history. I actually think the past council meeting videos have been very useful, I have watched meetings that are over 8 years old and have found some interesting promises made.

  8. Emoluments Clause on August 30, 2017 at 8:57 pm said:

    Speaking of retaining videos, KELO’s retrieval system with their new web site is really lacking, in my opinion. Now, it might be my browser causing the problems, too. However, they advertise the fact that their current retrieval system goes back to 2006, but so what, the old website, which was replaced last year, went back to 2001…..(????)

  9. Bruce on August 30, 2017 at 10:47 pm said:

    come on and everyone else, there is no limit to how many videos you upload or keep active on YouTube. YouTube wants everyone’s videos, forever.

    I have uploaded about 3,000 videos to YouTube and will continue. http://www.sfmeetings.org is our latest attempt to open up the process.

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