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Clatsop County managers propose board-rules updates; commissioners debate social media, tone and process
Summary
County manager Don Boone presented amendments to board rules — clarifying social-media guidance, liaison roles and travel budget management — and commissioners debated whether to accept narrow changes now or pursue a broader rewrite of the rules' tone and preamble.
County Manager Don Boone presented draft amendments to Clatsop County’s board rules, explaining that changes were prompted by evolving legal issues around elected officials’ use of social media and by the need to clarify liaison roles and travel procedures. The proposed social-media language distinguishes three types of websites — personal, campaign and official — and states that platforms used to conduct county business should be official county sites subject to public-record and other public procedures. The travel-policy changes would increase each board member’s travel…
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