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Found this about LA/Cameras in courtrooms. Still searching for other sources.
http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-la...d-law-fall-2003/camera-access-americas-courtr
Louisiana civil service hearing closed to cameras
A civil service referee banned cameras from a civil hearing to adjudicate a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a former employee of the Public Service Commission.
WWL-TV reporter Dave McNamara protested the ban as a violation of Louisiana's Open Meetings Law. According to McNamara, the civil service hearing, held Aug. 6 in Baton Rouge, was not conducted in a courtroom, but in a "quasi-courtroom" style.
"There was a hearing officer and then they took testimony," McNamara said. "It was not an actual courtroom."
Current Louisiana courtroom guidelines allow cameras in the state Supreme Court, but prohibit cameras inside lower-level courtrooms. According to a statute within the Louisiana local civil rules, cameras are banned "to minimize interference with and disruptions of the court's business."
Even though civil service hearings were not conducted in a courtroom, Civil Service Referee Roxie Goings Clark told Baton Rouge's The Advocate, "We are having a court hearing with witnesses; [cameras] would upset the courtroom."
http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-la...d-law-fall-2003/camera-access-americas-courtr
Louisiana civil service hearing closed to cameras
A civil service referee banned cameras from a civil hearing to adjudicate a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a former employee of the Public Service Commission.
WWL-TV reporter Dave McNamara protested the ban as a violation of Louisiana's Open Meetings Law. According to McNamara, the civil service hearing, held Aug. 6 in Baton Rouge, was not conducted in a courtroom, but in a "quasi-courtroom" style.
"There was a hearing officer and then they took testimony," McNamara said. "It was not an actual courtroom."
Current Louisiana courtroom guidelines allow cameras in the state Supreme Court, but prohibit cameras inside lower-level courtrooms. According to a statute within the Louisiana local civil rules, cameras are banned "to minimize interference with and disruptions of the court's business."
Even though civil service hearings were not conducted in a courtroom, Civil Service Referee Roxie Goings Clark told Baton Rouge's The Advocate, "We are having a court hearing with witnesses; [cameras] would upset the courtroom."