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Residents urge council to restore comments on Lewiston Police Department Facebook page, criticize process
Summary
Multiple Lewiston residents used public comment to urge the council to reconsider its decision to turn off comments on the Lewiston Police Department’s Facebook posts, citing transparency and free-speech concerns and asking for clearer public process.
Three residents called on the Lewiston City Council during the public-comment period to reverse a decision to close comments on the Lewiston Police Department’s Facebook page and to improve transparency around the matter.
Andrew Jones of Ward 2 said he was “here tonight to express my displeasure” at a decision made at a prior meeting to disable comments on the LPD page. Jones summarized various explanations council members and staff had offered and said the public was being misinformed by a post on the department’s page that attributed the change to…
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