City officials manage social media every day, often without knowing where the legal lines fall. In this webinar, GMA General Counsel Rusi Patel walks through the public forum categories that govern official pages and what the Supreme Court's Lindke v. Freed and O'Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier decisions mean for officials who use personal accounts for city business. He also covers employee speech under the Pickering balancing test and the retention periods that apply to social media posts as official correspondence. The session closes with practical steps, from adopting a social media policy to checking with the city attorney before blocking a user or deleting a comment.
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