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Severance council debates social-media rules, leans toward adding guidance to ethics code
Summary
Councilors discussed whether to adopt a standalone social-media policy or fold guidance into the town's code of ethics. Members differed on personal autonomy vs. a need for decorum; several favored a short ethics amendment rather than a sweeping new policy.
Severance's council spent an extended portion of the meeting debating how (and whether) to regulate council members' use of social media when they identify as town officials.
Staff presented two sample policies and asked whether the council wanted a standalone social-media policy or a short ethics-code addition. Council members were split: some said social media guidance…
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