Several bills have been heard this year that attempt to ease the purported financial burden on school departments in paying for school committee meeting notice ads in the newspaper. Many of the bills would allow school committees to post notices of their meetings on the web in lieu of placing newspaper advertisements. However, the ACLU and others have argued this fails to acknowledge the still-present “digital divide” between households with Internet access and those without.
This year the ACLU is working to amend a less-problematic alternative bill that would expand the types of newspapers that would be allowed to print the advertisements.
