City of Oshawa

The Ombudsman reviewed complaints about a meeting of the City of Oshawa’s Corporate and Finance Services Committee which raised concerns about the public notice – which was temporarily unavailable on the City’s website due to a technical issue – and about the failure of the audio during the meeting webcast. As a best practice, the Ombudsman recommended that the City remain vigilant to promptly identify any technological issue affecting the posting of its public notices. In addition, the Ombudsman found that the failure of the audio during the meeting webcast did not contravene the Municipal Act, 2001, since the meeting location was a physical location open to the public and the City’s own procedure by-law states that the webcast is provided for convenience only.

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