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Board debates social-media rules for trustees, flags First Amendment and public-meeting limits
Summary
Directors discussed three distinct questions: official board social accounts, personal social media by trustees, and whether trustees' engagement on social platforms about district matters creates legal or governance risks. They asked staff to draft a policy and guidelines and to form a small group to help prepare the materials.
The Mercer Island School District Board of Directors devoted a second segment of a special meeting to the question of social-media guidance for trustees and for an official board presence.
Directors framed the discussion as three separate issues: (1) rules for official board social-media accounts; (2) guidance for trustees' personal accounts (for example whether a director may identify themselves as a board member in a personal profile); and (3) whether directors should engage with district-related discussion on personal pages and, if so, how to…
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