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Summit County Board of Health approves internal policy allowing limited social-media partner services for disease investigations
Summary
The board unanimously supported an operating policy authorizing trained staff to use social-media/digital partner services as a last-resort tool to locate contacts during communicable-disease investigations; policy was developed after training and legal review and will be revised as needed.
The Summit County Board of Health voted unanimously to support a new internal operating standards and procedures document that defines how the Summit County Health Department may use social-media and digital partner services in communicable-disease investigations.
Derek, who presented the policy, told the board the tool is intended as a last resort when cases or contacts cannot be reached by traditional means and when only an online handle is available. He said the department developed the policy after…
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