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Council signals support to disable comments on Police Department Facebook posts

2865465 · April 3, 2025
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Summary

Following council discussion about offensive and harmful comments on the Lewiston Police Department Facebook page, the acting city administrator said he will instruct the police chief to disable comments on future posts.

Councilors raised repeated concerns about antagonistic and offensive comments appearing on the Lewiston Police Department’s Facebook page and asked the administration to block public commenting on future posts.

Councilor Chittum said legal counsel had advised the department it could disable comments on the…

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