Brevard school board meeting video edited to cut profane remark

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Brevard Public Schools edited a meeting recording for the second time to remove a profane comment.

The removed comment was a public speaker quoting board member Gene Trent's hot mic statement, "I (expletive) hate transparency."

A First Amendment expert suggests that editing the public record may violate Florida's Sunshine Laws.

For the second time in less than a month, edited the recording of a meeting to remove a segment of public comment, this time cutting out a section where a speaker quoted .

That comment, made on a hot mic at the Nov. 18 meeting, was edited out from the publicly available video on the district's YouTube channel, an action likely in violation of Florida's Sunshine Laws, according to a First Amendment expert.

, during the recorded agenda-relate