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Easley council amends acceptable-use policy for elected officials after debate over enforcement and device access
Summary
Council members debated an amendment to the Acceptable Use Policy for elected officials, striking a sentence that would have required offending elected officials to reimburse the city for costs; concerns included First Amendment protections and city-email access on personal devices.
The Easly City Council on Jan. 22 amended and adopted an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for elected officials after extended discussion about enforcement language and technical access to city email.
A councilmember from Ward 4 said she could not sign the policy as written and objected to the AUP’s origins and the requirement that some prior outgoing members had approved it. That councilmember also said she was unable to access her city email on her personal device and raised concerns about the policy’s reach. "I will not put anything on my phone that can be foyed," she…
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