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Residents and employees urge council to protect employee speech as social-media policy is reviewed
Summary
Public commenters and a former city employee told council that proposed social-media restrictions risked chilling protected speech; speakers cited Pickering/Connick precedent and asked the city to explicitly protect employees— free-speech rights while clarifying city accounts' rules.
The council discussed a proposed social-media policy for city accounts and elected officials— interactions after several public speakers raised free-speech concerns for city employees and residents.
Former city employee Keith Tudyk, who said he had recently been a city pool employee, read passages from the city—s public-relations and employment contract language and argued that his Facebook post criticizing the…
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