They say sunshine is the best disinfectant, and in the age of Twitter and video feeds, a legislative proposal to allow cameras back into New York courts, is a step in the right direction; ideally, streaming video feeds of every courtroom should be the norm.
The sine qua non of a court of record is that there is a record to be made. While courtrooms are explicitly deemed to be open to the public under the law, Civil Rights Law Article 5 makes it a misdemeanor to tape inside a courtroom. But so many times the black and white record made of the proceedings is simply insufficient for the purposes of capturing the conduct that transpires within the four walls of the Court.
