Judith Prieve is a reporter and editor for the Bay Area News Group who covers eastern Contra Costa County for the East Bay Times and The Mercury News. She has worked as a reporter, features editor and assistant metro editor at newspapers in Wisconsin and Northern California and has been at what is now the Bay Area News Group since 1990.
OAKLEY — A policy to guide council members in their personal social media postings passed its first hurdle Tuesday.
Most cities have social media policies for official staff communications and city accounts, but fewer try to regulate personal accounts.they didn’t need a formal policy to regulate their social media posts. Councilwoman Lori Ogorchock had raised the idea, noting the California League of Cities has suggested municipalities consider such a policy as more elected officials and committee members find themselves embroiled in litigation over their comments.
Instead, the new policy includes “truisms” or cautions about what a council member could face as a result of his posts on his private social media page. Councilmember Hugh Henderson brought the item forward at an earlier meeting, saying he wanted to see guidelines for what the Brown Act says the council members can do or can’t do on social media.
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