Ethics Committee Found Probable Cause Over Legislator's Blocking and Deletions; No Sanctions Imposed
The Alaska Legislature Select Committee on Legislative Ethics found probable cause that a legislator violated provisions requiring integrity and constituent access after blocking a constituent and deleting comments, but it imposed no sanctions after the legislator deactivated her social media page and recommended she refrain from blocking comments solely for disagreement.
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A citizen filed an ethics complaint alleging a legislator blocked the citizen and removed her comments from the legislator's social media page. "A citizen filed an ethics complaint against a legislator alleging violations of the Alaska legislative ethics act due to the legislators blocking of a constituent and deletion of comments from her social media page," the summary reports.
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