Upper Dublin SD policy committee reviews rewritten social media policy; debates monitoring, comments and logo use

The Upper Dublin SD policy committee reviewed a newly rewritten social media policy that would replace the district’s prior language and set governance rules for district-owned and affiliated accounts.

The committee discussed whether district-owned and district-affiliated social media accounts should be operated as designated public forums, how broadly the district should monitor and remove comments, limits on third-party use of district logos and branding, and how student likeness and opt-out preferences should be handled online.

Administration presented a single new draft (referred to in the meeting as “social media 8 17”) and explained the intent: to move conduct rules about staff-student interactions into an existing boundaries policy and to focus this policy on how the district will manage and operate social media platforms. “One of the elements … was around some of the conduct elements of how there are staff and student interactions on social media platforms. But as we went back to review it again, those rules of conduct apply beyond social media,” the staff presenter said, noting the shift in emphasis toward governance and definitions for…