Your answer depends on who's filming and the purpose for filming or recording an association meeting.
There may or may not be a law covering filming or recording -- you can check with your local Secretary of State regarding the style of corporation your association fits within. (Associations are usually non-profit corporations.)
If you are a disgruntled owner with significant differences with board business or board actions, you may want to collect evidence. In this case, you can seek the advice of counsel in answer to your question.
If you are a board secretary and believe this is the best way to document your board meetings, please be aware that this digital document may become evidence in case of a legal situation.
(Taking notes and structuring board meetings around an agenda and taking minutes relative to board resolutions is much preferred to filming or recording board meetings.)
Read your governing documents regarding minutes and owners' access to them. There is no standard; each association is different.
Every association has a moral duty to post/ publish/ broadcast and otherwise inform owners about the business of the association conducted at board meetings. If you are not an owner, if you are a tenant, if you simply know someone who lives in the association, you may not be privy to meeting minutes, except through an owner.
Read your governing documents to determine whether or not your meetings are open meetings: the dictate may also be available in state law. Unless the board is in executive session, it is unreasonable that the board would bar residents -- owners or tenants from an open board meeting. If the meetings are open meetings by law, and especially if a tenant holds an owner's proxy, there isn't any good reason to deny a renter a seat at an association meeting.
Norwegian Forest Owners Association was created in 1913.
National Association of Theatre Owners was created in 1965.
I would try to attend many of the home owners meetings and voice your opinion. You can find this information of the meeting times through your monthly news letter.
National Association of Women Business Owners was created in 1975.
These are association set up so that small business owners can meet and discuss issues encountered, network and get information regarding opportunities for their business type.
They can if the streets are owned by the home owners' association rather than by a municipality.
Read your governing documents to determine what kind of notification is required for a board meeting. There are board meetings where no vote is taken, which are working board meetings where matters are discussed, options weighed, and so forth, when it is unlikely that owners would want to attend. Remember, board meetings are just that: board meetings. They are not owners' meetings. The annual meeting is usually the only meeting where owners are automatically invited to contribute from the floor. Otherwise, owners must notify the board officially about an issue using the official notification procedure established by the board. When boards meet and vote, proper notice must be given to owners. The penalty for not including owners in these meetings is to be called out in a subsequent meeting by an owner who can ask that the matters voted on in secret be discussed with owners present, and voted on again in public.
Property Owners' Association (similar to Homeowners' Association)
A homeowners association cannot be a mandatory association without the consent of 100% of the property owners in the development attempting to establish an association. In addition to the consent of the property owners, the association must follow certain procedures and file the proper documents in order to subject the property to the association's rule.