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Cleveland Heights committee advances ordinances to restrict city email and social media use and add council veto over mayor property decisions
Summary
An Administrative Services Committee presentation advanced proposed ordinances that would limit access to city email accounts, bar political messaging on city systems and give five council members a veto over mayoral decisions about city property; the committee voted 3-0 to forward the measures for legal review.
Cleveland Heights — An Administrative Services Committee report to the Cleveland Heights City Council Committee of the Whole on June 30 outlined a package of proposed ordinances to tighten rules on city email and social media use and to add a council veto over certain mayoral actions concerning city property.
The proposal as described to the committee would amend Chapter 105 by adding Section 105.03 (rules for city emails), add Section 105.04 to prohibit review or access of city email accounts of employees or elected officials “without consent or lawful approval pursuant to the Ohio Public Records Law,” and add Section 105.05 to limit city social media and…
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