An unwelcome “Zoombomb” exploded during the first meeting of Cornwall’s new Housing Task Force during their virtual meeting on Monday afternoon January 25. Several participants who were not known to the host (Janell Mullen, regional planner for Northwest Hills Council of Governments and consultant to Cornwall’s Housing Task Force), refused to identify themselves. Soon the newcomers disrupted the meeting by making racist and obscene comments directed ad hominem at task force members based on what they had said in the opening few minutes of the meeting. Janell stopped admitting new “raiders” but was unable to kick them all off and so finally shut down the Zoom session entirely and started up a new meeting to which she only admitted the official participants.
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