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Lake Stevens staff advises caution on council-run social media; council may operate personal pages but bears records responsibility
Summary
Staff briefed the council on risks and technical limits of city-sponsored social-media accounts and recommended council members be allowed to run their own pages provided they follow a screenshot-and-retain public-records workflow; council debated pros and cons of an official city-managed council page.
City staff told the Lake Stevens Council April 14 that creating a city-managed council social-media presence poses significant public-records and operational risks, and recommended council members operating personal or member-managed pages accept responsibility for capturing and retaining public records.
Staff said vendor options and Facebook settings were vetted but that the city could not guarantee retention and comment-control requirements on…
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