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District keeps social media as nonpublic forum and tightens linking rules for boosters and third-party pages
Summary
Springfield Township administrators proposed keeping district social media accounts as nonpublic forums (no public comments), to remove or take down inactive X/Twitter accounts, and to require third-party/booster accounts that link to district sites to identify as unaffiliated or forfeit the ability to link.
The policy committee reviewed a draft social media policy that emphasizes the district will maintain nonpublic district accounts (no public comments) and tighten rules for third-party accounts that want to link to district websites.
The superintendent said the district "purposely choose[s] not to have a Facebook page and Instagram page as a district" and described legal cases elsewhere where districts lost lawsuits over selective deletion of comments. For that reason,…
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