You may have to wait before watching an upcoming Kewaunee County Board meeting from the comfort of your home. After years of livestreaming and recording its meetings, the Kewaunee County Board paused the practice at the advice of its corporation counsel. Kewaunee County Board Chairperson Dan Olson says the concern is that governments are creating and maintaining a record responsible for open records requests and other purposes. The Kewaunee County Executive Committee is weighing options at its meeting on Monday, which include putting the systems in place to maintain the record created and livestreaming, but not recording the meeting. Olson believes board members favor keeping some process in place in the name of transparency for constituents.

Neighboring counties are on opposite sides of the spectrum when it comes to handling their meetings online. Door County has its meetings available by Zoom, but then posts them online later. In Brown County, supervisors have weighed concerns about costs, closed captioning, and archive responsibility while they decide their own path forward.