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Council discusses tightening social-media guidance for city employees, stops short of new policy
Summary
Councilors debated whether to extend rules that apply to elected officials' social-media posts to city employees. Staff cautioned that restricting employees’ off-duty speech raises First Amendment concerns; council asked staff to consider policy changes but took no formal action.
Council members discussed whether to expand the city’s social-media guidance—currently applied to city pages and to council members—to cover employees’ personal social-media activity. Councilman Thomas said the employee manual addresses only city-managed social accounts and not employees’ personal posts; he asked whether…
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