221 @ 1:16 am
Michael Marks, VP
Medford City Council
Room 207
55 George P. Hassett Drive
Medford, MA 02155
RE: Facebook LIVE at City Council meeting.
Notification pursuant to Mass. Gen. Laws. ch. 30A, § 20(e).
Note to Clerk Finn: I will be purchasing a $5.00 DVD of the 3/21/17 meeting
Dear Councilor Marks,
This is my formal notification to the Vice President of the Medford City Council that I will be taping the open meeting of that council on March 28, 2017. My previous notification to you is below in Exhibit 3.
I am requesting the seat for reporters behind Adam Knight and Breanna Lungo-Koehn.
My credentials as a journalist are well known to the council. Any attempt by Mr. Caraviello to interfere in my rights as a journalist will be dealt with in a court of law.
This request is being made to the Vice President for the following reasons:
1)The Council President, Richard F. Caraviello, lost to this resident on January 31, 2017 in criminal court.
2)I
am, most likely this week, filing a charge of retaliation on the
Council President, Caraviello, with the Mass Commission of
Discrimination (separate from the Federal suit I am filing against
Caraviello the city and others) for:
a)Malicious prosecution
b)alleged lying to the Medford Police about this resident in a police report
c)CENSORING my speech about the high school last Tuesday, March 21, 2017, on camera
d)On February 26, 2017, less than a month after I prevailed over Caraviello's hideous charges, he sends a nasty, harassing e mail to my lawyer (???) giving medical advice allegedly without a license.
The
fact that this victim of Caraviello's is a student of Christian Science
- which City Hall is very aware of - makes the rant by Caraviello
malicious, defamatory, bulging with religious discrimination, and is
pure retaliation (See Exhibit 1, below)
Last week Mr. Caraviello censored me, illegally. Roy Belson was allowed to speak, I was not.
Clearly,
Mr. Caraviello does NOT want me to sit at the reporter's desk. If this
is denied me, it will absolutely prove my point of clear discrimination
and retaliation by Caraviello.
EXHIBIT 1
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Rick Caraviello <rick.caraviello@gmail.com>
To: Mark Rumley <rumley.mark@gmail.com>
Cc: Councillor Paul Camuso <camusop@aol.com>, rclimo@comcast.net,
Date: February 26, 2017 at 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: Defamation
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Rick Caraviello <rick.caraviello@gmail.com>
To: Mark Rumley <rumley.mark@gmail.com>
Cc: Councillor Paul Camuso <camusop@aol.com>, rclimo@comcast.net,
Date: February 26, 2017 at 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: Defamation
Mark I did see that and some of his latest rantings are getting worse, he now is attacking my business and making serious accusations. You are correct that his attorney should advise him to seek some medical attention.
Rick
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Let's repeat the notification:
I am planning on taping FACEBOOK LIVE at the City Council this Tuesday, March 28th.
For placement of my tripod and iPhone I am requesting the desk behind Adam Knight and Breanna Lungo-Koehn
As
I am the most experienced journalist attending council meetings,
published in eight books or so, mentioned in many, many more, and as an
award winning tv host, award winning radio host and film director with a
documentary in worldwide release of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist
Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane - all fully documented, none of
this Voc/'Tech Heidi Riccio "award winner" in her mind (Educator of the
Year? In what dimension???) city hall has an obligation not to discriminate.
A few years back I enlightened the clueless former Council President Paul A. Camuso that there are
Open Meeting Laws he was required to read and be aware of. Glad I could be of service, again.
Adam
Knight has tried to pull stunts on residents to DENY them their ten
minutes at "the People's Forum" that is the City Council. Knight, Dello
Russo and Caraviello shut down all conversation on the
high school last Tuesday night. They should hand us the $92,000.00
they take from this city back for that buffoonery, pure First Amendment
abuse. Here's the law on taping again.
Now, let's look at my good work for this city.
FACEBOOK LIVE last week
By
10 PM last Tuesday night the Committee of the Whole had 58 views. It
now has 122 views and 48 hits on the Real Medford Mass Politics site
This is hard work and honest effort by a journalist with a news site now with 954,356 page views @ 12:16 am Monday, March 27th, 2017, nine years after the established site opened. Medford Info Central - called "the only legitimate news media in Medford" by a former
mayoral candidate.
This business, Medford Info Central dot com, is registered at the clerk's office in Medford City Hall. It is 45,644 views away from one million. And the improvements that have occurred due to my videos, Facebook page and blogging are remarkable:
positive changes at Medford Housing Authority, superb changes to access
TV (getting rid of a nuisance cable station) and many more outstanding
achievements that have unarguably added to the quality of life in Medford.
For
my honest efforts for this city I was assaulted on or about April 27,
2010 by Adam Knight's friend, Matthew Page Lieberman (front page of
Transcript,) assaulted on or about June 16, 2015 by the city clerk of Medford (Rick Caraviello stated this, under oath, on 1/31/17 that he heard the city clerk involved in a "yelling" incident.
As you know, Councilor Marks, as you were standing 3 feet or so away from me, I was silent as a church mouse and Mr. Finn did all the yelling. It was brutal, as you
As you know, Councilor Marks, as you were standing 3 feet or so away from me, I was silent as a church mouse and Mr. Finn did all the yelling. It was brutal, as you
know.
This thug-like behavior by a board member of TV3 (Page-Lieberman,) and a temperamental City Clerk who blamed a senior woman, Judy Lonergan, for a STEAK KNIFE left month after month on those boxes in front of Alden Chambers (not to mention the box cutter left on the
window sill; which Council President says on my videotape that they are no longer there. Thank
God)...a clerk who told me he only handles "deaths and marriages" (guess the council agenda is created by the spirits) - who doesn't have the decency to take boxes, a dirty, filthy steak knife and more away from the door where he performs weddings...so much for Medford pride.
With rumors that a former city council president allegedly attacked his own grandma with a
meat cleaver or butcher knife - that buffoon twice showing up in the
dark to harass me as I was going to my car, was it really prudent to
have a steak knife lying around for Medford's very own Norman Bates to
be tempted by?
This guitar player was attacked by a former football player in June of 2015.
We do not need box cutters and steak knives around when Attorney David P. Skerry said in court that I'd "better get a bodyguard."
Truer words were never spoken.
We do not need box cutters and steak knives around when Attorney David P. Skerry said in court that I'd "better get a bodyguard."
Truer words were never spoken.
For my city I will go where angels fear to tread and set my tripod up on the reporter's table.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Joe Viglione
Exhibit 2
Stats on Medford Information Cental.com
page views
954,356 @ 12:16 am
945,270 @ 9:51 pm
945,241 @ 9:25 pm
945,220 @ 9:05 pm
108 @ 9:51 pm 1o8
79 @ 9:25 pm 85 minutes, 79 page views
58 @ 9:05 pm in 65 minutes
54,780 to one million page views
Exhibit 3
Notice the law and our request:
- Mar 18 at 2:31 PM
- City Hall,I will be taping the Room 207 at 6 PM on Tuesday at City Hall via Facebook LIVE. I intend to place a tripod somewhere to get the feed for FACEBOOK LIVE. Councilor Marks, being Vice President, can decide where the tripod goes where it can accurately tape the meetingand not interfere in any way.As I am suing the City Council President for malicious abuse of process and also filing a charge of Retaliation on Council President Caraviello with the Mass. Commission against Discrimination,we do not want Caraviello censoring or interfering in the broadcast.
*Note, Caraviello did censor me after he allowed Roy Belson to speak AT the City Council March 21.**Paulette Van der Kloot and Roy Belson informed me that the School Committee of March 20, 2017 was not recorded
Public Meetings
Massachusetts open meetings law expressly permits sound and video recording of public meetings (i.e., meetings of a governmental body required to be open to the public by law), except for executive sessions, by anyone in attendance. The statute provides that:
After notifying the chair of the public body, any person may make a video or audio recording of an open session of a meeting of a public body, or may transmit the meeting through any medium, subject to reasonable requirements of the chair as to the number, placement and operation of equipment used so as not to interfere with the conduct of the meeting. At the beginning of the meeting the chair shall inform other attendees of any such recordings.See Mass. Gen. Laws. ch. 30A, § 20(e).
For information on your right of access to public meetings, please consult the Access to Government Information section of the guide and The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press's Open Government Guide: Massachusetts.